NEW: At least 2 TV news stations have been completely offline since Thursday in what cybersecurity experts say appears to be a ransomware attack on their parent company.
"We are only able to communicate with each other over personal phones and text messages," said an employee at one TV station.
ABC affiliate WFTV in Orlando, Florida, and NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh, which are both owned by the Cox Media Group, were told Thursday by managers to shut down company computers and phones. “An ‘IT incident’ that spans multiple organizations in a company is almost always a ransomware attack,” Liska said.“The most likely cause by far of any incident that involves unplanned and widespread IT disruption is ransomware or the detection of malware that can be used to deploy ransomware,” Callow said. “Basically, the other things which could potentially cause such a shutdown are far less likely.
In Pittsburgh, the IT network staff began shutting down company servers as a precaution Thursday morning, an employee there said.
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