Another virus made its way from newspaper first (www) pages. They write about the case (like BBC). Why? Wild guess is that because a number of media companies were affected...
The interesting thing is that the thing is not that dangerous, see SANS analysis.
I find it interesting that (all?) the articles take it as a natural disaster. It just happens and there's no way to protect yourself. Such option is of course false. I have already written about this, btw. Minimum security: update your system. Have firewall configured.