![]() ![]() ![]() Initially mistaken for a server outage, the attack appears to have used a malware family called Ryuk to invade Tribune’s systems and lock employees out of its files. The attack, which began December 27, also disrupted delivery of newspapers on the West Coast that use Tribune’s Los Angeles printing plant, according to The New York Times, which was also affected. At Tribune alone, “Every market across the company was impacted,” a spokeswoman told multiple outlets, though she did not say how many papers specifically. ![]() Ransomware cripples newspapers across the USĪn apparent malware attack on Tribune Publishing halted the delivery of not just its own print newspapers but also the LA Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune, which the company sold to billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong but still share printing systems with Tribune. As Klippenstein notes in his article, the memo contradicts former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s statement in August 2017 that the FBI had already created this “new counterintelligence unit ” the memo is dated Novemand a second document establishing a new cost code for the unit is dated May of the following year. It also appears to grant the unnamed unit authority to pursue leaks that are not merely of classified material but of unauthorized material as well-which is not necessarily a crime. The document, classified “Secret” and released under the Freedom of Information Act to The Young Turks reporter Ken Klippenstein, pointedly does not even disclose the name of this new unit. ICYMI: Pushed even further: US newsrooms view mobile alerts as a standalone platform “The complicated nature of-and rapid growth in-unauthorized disclosure and media leak threats and investigations has necessitated the establishment of a new Unit,” reads one of the longer unredacted sections in the memo. Here are some new revelations of intelligence activity affecting journalists, from recent research and declassifications:Ī new FBI unit for investigating leakersĪ partially declassified memo from the criminal division of the Department of Justice reveals that the FBI established a unit devoted to pursuing reporters’ government sources last year. But the one advantage reporters have over clandestine workers is that their main weakness-public exposure-is the primary business of the press. It’s easy to despair, given the vast financial and technical resources of the state-sponsored groups seeking to undermine work in the public interest by underpaid journalists. They include revelations about a new FBI unit apparently devoted to ferreting out anybody who talks to a reporter without permission, more news about Russian discord operations disguised as news organizations, and, of course, front-page stories like the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi government agents on orders from the crown prince himself. In recent weeks, there have been plenty of stories-mostly unpleasant ones-covering clashes between journalists and security services. ![]()
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