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

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, News-Press & 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 & Gazette Co.

Claimed by Termite · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 16, 2025
Data leaked

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

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

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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