Pyot Trotsenko

Affiliated media: Photojournalist

Incident date: February 21, 2023

Attack type:

• Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty, Almaty

Additional information:

Journalist Pyotr Trotsenko reported that bots became active in his Telegram channel Petroglyphs under the post about the burning of two cars of cameraman Roman Yegorov, writing messages with the same texts — «Burn, burn bright» and «What a pity you were not in that car». «178 (!) comments with the same text were sent by bots in the Petroglyphs chat after I wrote about Roman Yegorov’s burnt cars. I don’t know what effect the bot senders were hoping for, but it’s funny that they even got here», — the journalist wrote.