A ransomware attack has hit the leading UK-based newspaper The Guardian
A significant IT incident that may have been a ransomware attack has impacted The Guardian, the top newspaper in the UK. As a result of the problem, which started late on Tuesday night and affected some of the company’s technical infrastructure, employees were requested to work from home. Additionally, several background services have experienced interruptions.
Although articles are published and posted to the Guardian website and mobile app, the creation of digital material has been significantly disrupted. The company expressed optimism that it would still be able to print Thursday’s edition. Although news organizations are frequently the target of cyberattacks by both nation-states and cybercriminals, the agency stated that it believed the assault was likely a ransomware effort. These involve computer system breaches where hackers demand the services be restarted.
Anna Bateson, the chief executive of The Guardian Media Group, and Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief, informed the staff: “As everyone knows, there has been a serious incident that has affected our IT network and systems in the last 24 hours.” “We believe this to be a ransomware attack but are continuing to consider all possibilities.”
“We are continuing to publish globally to our website and apps, and although some of our internal systems are affected, we are confident we will be able to publish in print tomorrow.” Our technology teams have been working to deal with all aspects of this incident, with the vast majority of our staff able to work from home as we did during the pandemic.
“We will continue to keep our staff and anyone else affected informed.” We will update everyone again at the end of the day. With a few key exceptions, we would like everyone to work from home for the remainder of the week unless we notify you otherwise. “Thank you to everyone working hard throughout this incident to keep us publishing, looking after our readers, supporters, and advertisers, and keeping our core systems available for colleagues.
An elite public health institute, AIIMS, was attacked online earlier in December; the attack resulted in the encryption of about 1.3 terabytes of data, and cyber security specialists theorized that China was responsible. The largest health insurance provider in Australia, Medibank Private Ltd., was the target of a cyber assault in October that exposed data totaling over 200 gigabytes and presumably impacted millions of users. Palo Alto Networks, a US cybersecurity company, disclosed yesterday that a Kremlin-connected hacker group that has been known to target Ukraine has recently expanded its eavesdropping against Ukraine’s NATO allies.