Malware attack on Tribune Publishing's network disrupts the printing and distribution of Saturday editions of LA Times, WSJ, NYT, and other papers
disable their ability to print newspapers!” http://www.latimes.com/... Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce : Some new details on the Ryuk malware attack that crippled newspapers across the U.S., and the workarounds that production staff developed to try to get the newspapers out anyway: http://www.latimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Matthew Kirschenbaum / @mkirschenbaum : “Cyberattack” on a printing plant. “The computer problem shut down a number of crucial software systems that store news stories, photographs and administrative information, and made it difficult to create the plates used to print the papers at The Times' downtown plant.” http://twitter.com/... Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce : 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 http://www.latimes.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Exercise healthy skepticism about the possible implications of this story. It relies on one anonymous source whose technical expertise is unclear. The Pam Dixon quote at the end is nonsense. It doesn't take a sophisticated hacker to DDoS a newspaper platform. http://twitter.com/... Brian Stelter / @brianstelter : Source tells @LATimes “we believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal info” http://twitter.com/... Raju Narisetti / @raju : As a follow-up, it is worth looking into whether Tribune Publishing, the former Tronc, cut back on digital security investments in what has been a very tumultuous fiscal management of that company. Most of their newspapers weren't available in Europe because of GDPR, for instance https://twitter.com/... Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep : Oh wow. Though I'd be wary of quick attribution. “Cyberattacks” don't have to be sophisticated of foreign to do real damage. Heck, sometimes they don't even have to be attacks. But definitely worth learning what happened as best we can. http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer