---
title: Pemex hack and preventing ransomware - Inside the Cyber24 Podcast
description: Mexico’s state-owned oil company gets hit with ransomware. Cyber24 in last week's podcast discuss and outline steps you can take to prevent the same from happening to your organization.
---

[VLCM Blogs - Learn How To Get IT Right ](https://blog.vlcm.com/blog)

# [Pemex hack and preventing ransomware - Inside the Cyber24 Podcast](https://blog.vlcm.com/blog/pemex-hack)

 Written by [VLCM](https://blog.vlcm.com/blog/author/vlcm) | Dec 17, 2019 5:53:11 PM

 

A Norwegian aluminum producer and a Mexican oil company have both been hit with ransomware attacks. The team looks at their response, the fallout and steps you can take to prevent the same on this week’s @cyber24_

Listen to the Podcast: [Play in new window](https://www.buzzsprout.com/697411/2139581-episode-63-pemex-hack-and-preventing-ransomware)

Subscribe: [Apple Podcasts](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber24/id1291806314?mt=2&ls=1#episodeGuid=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyber24.us%2F%3Fp%3D648) | [Android](https://subscribeonandroid.com/www.cyber24.us/feed/podcast/) | [Google Podcasts](https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY3liZXIyNC51cy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv) | [Stitcher](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/marty-carpenter/cyber24?refid=stpr) | [TuneIn](https://tunein.com/radio/Cyber24-p1041151/) | [RSS](https://www.cyber24.us/feed/podcast/)

 

## [Originally posted on Cyber24: ](https://www.cyber24.us/episode-63-pemex-hack-and-preventing-ransomware/)

Cybercrime isn’t a uniquely American phenomenon. Recent high-profile attacks on Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly was hit with ransomware demanding $5 million comes just months after a similar attack on Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro. The former was offered a discount by hackers if they paid right away (which they did not) while the later refused to pay at all and has spent a reported $71 million to clean up the mess. 

On this week’s episode of CYBER24, the team discusses these high-profile foreign attacks and outline some of the steps you can take to protect your business. 

## Article discussed

[**Hackers demand $5 million from Mexico’s Pemex in cyberattack**](https://apple.news/Aj4MVfcXQQZ6TiAafJUCc3A)

 

 

 

[View full post](https://blog.vlcm.com/blog/pemex-hack)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "VLCM"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2019-12-17T17:53:11.761Z",
  "datePublished" : "2019-12-17T17:53:11Z",
  "headline" : "Pemex hack and preventing ransomware - Inside the Cyber24 Podcast",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 463,
    "url" : "https://go.vlcmtech.com/hubfs/Pemex.jpg",
    "width" : 694
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://blog.vlcm.com/blog/pemex-hack",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60.0,
      "url" : "https://go.vlcmtech.com/hubfs/_vlcmlogos/vlcm-logo.png",
      "width" : 60.000004
    },
    "name" : "VLCM Blogs"
  }
}
```