Affiliated media: Stopfals.md, Online publication

Incident date: October 19, 2017

Attack type:

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

Source: Association of Independent Press (API)

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

Cloning of a website. The clone was registered on the 19th September 2017 on an American server, on the same day as a group was formed with the same name on Facebook, which took the unsanctioned logo and motto of the campaign STOP FALS!, with the aim of taking the identity of the organisation, and betraying its trustworthiness by posting fake news and distorted information.