Guardian newspaper hit by suspected ransomware attack

The paper says its IT network is being affected

by a "serious incident" and staff are working

from home

He once again, at the venerable BBC where they're letting us, know, that the Guardian newspaper is hit by a suspected ransomware attack, and before I forget, like, share, I greatly appreciate. And don't forget to tap, that little notification. So you get these updates, when they drop, okay? So the Guardian newspaper is come under a suspected or Ransomware attack. Those naughty hackers are at it again. It is said that there has been a serious incident affecting its it systems in the last 24 hours with disruption to behind-the-scenes Services, the company said it was continuing to publish globally to its website. One of the most visited news sites in the world and was confident he could still print the physical paper that's interesting isn't it?

So the hack is actually a affected, the print side of it, not the digital side of Mmm. Ironic really isn't? It staff have been told not to go into the office and to work from home in a statement. The guardian said our technology teams have been working to deal with all aspects of these instant with the vast majority of our staff, able to work from home, as we did during the pandemic. We believe this to be a ransomware attack, but a continuing to consider all possibilities ransomware is malicious software, used by hackers and often sent via attachments in emails to gain access to an organization's. Or individuals computer systems the criminals, then find the and encrypt important or sensitive files and demand a ransom for them to be unlocked. Yeah, it's quite interesting. I if ever you get attacked by a ransomware person, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't because if you decide to pay the ransom they probably just going to run off and take the money and run and you stuck where you are. That's why it's important to try and back everything up on a Skylab Z on an Enterprise wide scale, you know, it's not not not as easy to drag it to a USB hard drive or a flash drive or something, but the principles still the same. You know, make sure you've got everything backed up and your antivirus and your security cyber security is in place. A huge range of targets from schools and hospitals to government agencies and media. Organizations have fallen victim, to ransomware with research indicating hackers are paid in the majority of cases, especially Specially in the UK and there's no guarantee they're going to release them. This is what's happened in Australia, recently be able to spay to them and in the second half of this year, you know, major health funds and and telecommunications companies hack hack, hack, hack hack and there's not much Point paying the ransom when they won't go to do it the oh, you don't know what they're going to do Anyway Hmm.

Now, according to the Press

Gazette, the guardian is the ninth

Most read that new site in the world with almost 390 million visits in November in its own reporting of the inside of the Guardian said, online publishing was largely unaffected as I said ironic, isn't it? Mmm. It said the guardian Media Group chief executive and a Bateson, an editor-in-chief Catherine, Vine had sent a message to the company's Workforce. Thank you to everyone working hard. So, about this incident to keep us publishing. These said, we will continue to keep our staff and anyone else affected informed with a few key exceptions. We would like everyone to work from home for the remainder of the week. Unless we notify you otherwise Jake more Global cyber security advisor at security software company. ESET said the guardian being targeted, was not a surprise. I use organizations have become a regular Target for cyber attacks this year. And these attacks often, they have even been more damaging effect on the company's targeted. Ransomware can often bring all departments to a standstill. So it's fortunate that despite this attack, the organization will still see some key areas working as usual. And that is interesting, isn't it? Because you will always say, you know, the old school paper Can't be interfered with. Hmm. Well, in this case it has been because it stopped all the systems that produce the old school newspapers. From being produced via a Cyber attack again as I say ironic considering the digital version of the Guardian newspaper, still up and running. Now, the universe has a sense of humor and it's bent. All right. Well, my name is David. Thanks for joining me for another social  update. I shall see you in the next one and don't forget to leave your comment below.