Meet LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms
By Andy Greenberg
Published: 2019-03-25 · Archived: 2026-04-05 16:10:50 UTC
The new strain of malware represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes targets.
LockerGoga represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes
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Ransomware has long been the scourge of the cybersecurity industry. When that extortionate hacking goes beyond
encrypting files to fully paralyze computers across a company, it represents not just a mere shakedown, but a
crippling disruption. Now a nasty new breed of ransomware known as LockerGoga is inflicting that paralysis on
industrial firms whose computers control actual physical equipment, and it's enough to deeply spook security
researchers.
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Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED covering hacking, cybersecurity, and surveillance. He’s the author
of the books Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and Sandworm: A New
Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. His books ... Read More
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