US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware

stapp · Feb 19, 2025

US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is blaming its recent service disruptions on a "cybersecurity attack," per a regulatory filing, and is the latest company to avoid using the dreaded R word.
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Listed companies have become adept at describing ransomware without actually saying the word in recent times, Lee being one of them. It told the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that "threat actors unlawfully accessed the company's network, encrypted critical applications, and exfiltrated certain files."
That sounds an awful lot like double extortion ransomware to us.
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/us_newspaper_publisher_exercises_linguistic/

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