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GLOBALMalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareTermiteRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

News-Press and Gazette Co.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 26, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for News-Press and Gazette Co.3 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Termite on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2025-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

News-Press & Gazette Company publishes daily newspapers and weekly publications. It provides cable, internet, and digital telephone services, as well as commercial printing services, such as Web and sheet-fed services. In addition, it operates television and radio stations. It was established in 1845 and is headquartered in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 26, 2025

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (5)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteSep 26 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 26, last Dec 17 (WA) — a 81-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-05-11

termite

According to ransomware.live, Termite is a ransomware group first identified in late 2024 using a modified version of Babuk ransomware code; its most notable attack was the November 2024 breach of supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder, claiming 680 GB of exfiltrated data and disrupting major customers including Starbucks.

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