Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country, preventing distribution

"A cyberattack that appears to have originated from outside the United States caused major printing and delivery disruptions at several newspapers across the country on Saturday including the Los Angeles Times...

The attack led to distribution delays in the Saturday edition of The Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and several other major newspapers that operate on a shared production platform. It also stymied distribution of the West Coast editions of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, which are all printed at the Los Angeles Times’ Olympic printing plant in downtown Los Angeles...

'We believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal information,” said the source,..."

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-times-delivery-breakdown-20181229-story.html

 

** Russia.

 

More like ** cluelessness and hysteria

 

North Korea Implicated In Attack That Stops Wall Street Journal And New York Times Presses

"...Forbes reports that the malware Tribune Publishing discovered was a version of the Ryuk ransomware family, which is often attributed to the Lazarus Group. The hacking collective is thought to operate out of China but has links to North Korea. It was behind the 2014 Sony Pictures Hack, the heist on a Bangladeshi bank in 2016, and is widely believed to have been responsible for the WannaCry malware..."

https://www.techspot.com/news/78052...ptive-cyberattack-multiple-us-newspapers.html

"...Tribune Publishing first detected the malware within corrupted files said to contain the Ryuk fingerprint of a '.ryk' extension on Friday and initiated a fire-fighting response immediately. However, this proved not to be enough to prevent a major disruption to the production of the Saturday editions of not only the local newspapers that are printed at the LA Times' Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles but also the west coast editions of national titles including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times...."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...rnal-and-new-york-times-presses/#6abf083220a2

 

Yeah. Admitting to getting pwned by ransomware is just so lame. So they gotta scream "nation-state cyberattack !!!" to save face.