Affiliated media: iStories (Important Stories) , Online news outlet

Incident date: June 19, 2025

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Istories

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

On June 19, the websites of the publications Verstka and iStories (Important Stories) were subjected to a powerful DDoS attack. On that day, they published a joint investigation into a network selling sex with minors, one of whose influential clients was businessman Oleg Deripaska.