Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta (St. Petersburg), Publication website

Incident date: October 24, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The website of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg became unavailable for an evening. Cybercrime prevention and investigation company Group-IB reported that several Russian media outlets had become "hostages" of the Badrabbit encryption virus.