YamalPro - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: YamalPro, News agency

Incident date: February 24, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Russia, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Salekhard

Additional information:

A powerful DDoS attack hit the news agency's website. 'YamalPro' faced similar problems in 2020. As of mid-April 2021, the YamalPro website is unavailable or works intermittently.

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