Disclosure context

About Termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 43 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post May 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 29, 2025News-Press and Gazette Co. listed by Termiteon the group's public leak site

Data size: 300 GB
Records: 000 files

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, News-Press and Gazette Co. is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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News-Press and Gazette Co.

Claimed by Termite · listed 8 months ago

300 GB

Data size

000 files records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 29, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Termite
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Sep 29, 2025
Data size: 300 GB
Records: 000 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

News-Press & Gazette Company is a family-owned media company headquartered in St. Joseph, Missouri, established in 1845. It publishes daily newspapers and weekly publications, operates television and radio stations, and provides cable, internet, and digital telephone services, as well as commercial printing. The company operates business units spanning newspapers, broadcast, and investments across multiple U.S. markets.

Industry: Newspaper & Broadcast Media
Address: 825 Edmond St, St. Joseph, MO
Founded: 1845

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business and personal data (totalling ~230 GB published across two separate attacks), with a media/broadcast company whose operations span newspapers, TV, radio, and telecom services. The second-wave exfiltration explicitly identified as personal data elevates severity, though no confirmed regulated medical or government data is stated.

The Termite ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 200 GB of confidential data in an initial attack, followed by a second attack yielding an additional ~30 GB of personal data, for a total of approximately 230 GB disclosed; the full dataset listed is ~300 GB.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Confidential business data (~200 GB)
Personal data (~30 GB, second attack)
Internal company documents

The group's post references roughly 11 proof files.

What the group claims

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.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for News-Press and Gazette Co.

Sources

Victim sitewww.npgco.com
Leak posthttp://termiteuslbumdge2zmfmfcsrvmvsfe4gvyudc5j6cdnisnhtftvokid.onion/post/68c8abe73238e6543856fad0

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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