Ransomware cyber attacks are targeting large companies and demanding huge payments.

A Norwegian aluminium producer is recovering after online hackers required 22,000 computers offline at 170 different sites all over the world.

Norsk Hydro declined to cave to the cyber criminal’s calls for money and also have spent £45m attempting to restore their business to full strength.

The attack may come as evidence grows that online hackers are becoming compensated off secretly by large organisations who would like a good way out.

The BBC’s Cyber-security reporter Joe Tidy reports.

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