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News-Press & Gazette Co.

Claimed by Termite · listed 10 months ago

10m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Termite
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Telecommunication
Listed on leak site
Sep 16, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

News-Press & Gazette Co. is a family-owned media company headquartered in St. Joseph, Missouri, in business since 1951. The company publishes daily newspapers and weekly publications, and also operates broadcast properties across multiple U.S. markets. It employs staff across a range of roles from entry-level to highly skilled technical and professional positions.

Industry
Newspaper & Broadcast Media
Address
825 Edmond St, St. Joseph, MO
Founded
1951

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration from a media company with employees across multiple business units. While specific data types are not enumerated, a family-owned media company with newspaper and broadcast operations likely holds significant PII (employees, subscribers) and business-sensitive information, and the published status confirms actual data exposure beyond a mere listing.

The Termite ransomware group claims an attack on News-Press & Gazette Co. with the disclosure status marked as data_published, indicating that data has been exfiltrated and published or made available. The specific data types and volume have not been detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee records
  • Business operations data
  • Internal company documents
  • Newspaper/broadcast operational data

What the group claims

News-Press & Gazette Company publishes daily newspapers and weekly publications.

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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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 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post June 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 16, 2025News-Press & Gazette Co. listed by Termiteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Termite

Termite has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Termite dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 172 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, News-Press & Gazette Co. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Termite means News-Press & Gazette Co. appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Termite's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.