RE: [TV orNotTV] Sinclair Ransomware Attack

[Brad Beam]

From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
Of David Lynch


>But even in much larger markets than Traverse City, they're still not totally 
>back to normal. At least as of yesterday evening, Austin's KEYE still has no 
>computer graphics in their newscasts other than the weather segment and seems 
>to be manually switching the newscasts and running local ads, but otherwise, 
>it would be hard to tell that anything was wrong.
 
I noticed last night that our Fox station, instead of running Smackdown, was 
showing the national feed of Stadium – a high-school football game from 
Sinclair’s Nashville station. (Not that Fox’s network feed to the local 
Sinclair affil has been off all week; brother-mine’s DVR shows an actual 
broadcast of The Masked Singer from Wednesday.)
 
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Sinclair Ransomware Attack

[David Lynch]

>
> Perhaps there's a Sinclair in Virginia that's been feeding copies of their
> shows up to Traverse City?)
>
Washington, DC's WJLA airs Wheel and Jeopardy. Given their proximity to
corporate HQ in suburban Baltimore, they may be getting more attention than
some of the other stations.

But even in much larger markets than Traverse City, they're still not
totally back to normal. At least as of yesterday evening, Austin's KEYE
still has no computer graphics in their newscasts other than the weather
segment and seems to be manually switching the newscasts and running local
ads, but otherwise, it would be hard to tell that anything was wrong.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Sinclair Ransomware Attack

[Ben Scripps]

Almost a week later and our local Sinclair (WPBN and WGTU, NBC and ABC 
respectively) is still unable to run any local commercials, but they've at 
least gotten some of their programming back.  J! and Wheel reappeared on 
Wednesday night, with local commercial pods filled by their weather camera 
looking at the Mackinac Bridge and news music running in the background.  
(Curiously, in one of the Jeopardy! breaks, they switched off of the camera to 
about five seconds of what appeared to be a political commercial featuring Tim 
Kaine being asked about abortion.  Perhaps there's a Sinclair in Virginia 
that's been feeding copies of their shows up to Traverse City?)

Their newscasts are still limited to a single anchor standing in front of a 
monitor with a static logo in it.  Their weather graphics appear to have been 
either unaffected or fully restored, but those are the only graphics they have. 
 It's pretty pitiful.  And I'm sure market #118 is nowhere near the top of 
Sinclair's list of priorities.

> On Oct 22, 2021, at 11:48 PM, Steve Timko  wrote:
> 
> Correction. "Jeopardy!" episodes are now distributed the night before. 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 5:54 PM Kevin M.  > wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 5:29 PM Mark Jeffries  > wrote:
> But Sinclair loves Trump.  Why would Putin love to go after Sinclair?   
> Wouldn't he want to go after, say, Comcast?
> 
> I sense you’re being a bit sarcastic, but Putin will target anything and 
> anyone if it serves his own interest. Could be for money, could be to 
> embarrass another American media empire. 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Jeffries
> spotligh...@gmail.com 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 6:37 PM Kevin M.  > wrote:
> It turns out that when you don’t hold oligarchs accountable for crimes 
> against us as a nation, he and his thugs (note that little if anything 
> nefarious occurs in Russia without Putin either condoning it, ordering it, or 
> profiting from it) will feel emboldened and get progressively worse. 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 4:29 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV 
> mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
> Attacker believed to be Russian gangsters Evil Corp, a researcher familiar 
> with them told CNN... no confirms...
> 
> https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/media/sinclair-broadcast-evil-corp-ransomware/index.html
>  
> 
>  (link)
> 
> B
> 
> Ben Scripps, in part, Oct 20th:
> I didn't see any mention of this 'round this list; over the weekend, Sinclair 
> was hit by a "cybersecurity incident":
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