Affiliated media: ProTenge.kz , Telegram channel of the online outlet
Incident date: March 27, 2022
Attack type:
- Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet
Who attacked: Unknown sources
Source: Instagram account "ProTenge.kz"
Location: Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar
Additional information:
The Telegram channel ProTenge.kz was attacked by bots. Bots wrote a hundred «positive» comments under the post about the three-volume book of Tokayev's speeches, where the editors asked whether the compilation had been produced for budgetary money. «The bots have been active since the night of March 26, and only finished at 3:28 AM today. All this time, they were praising the collection of books about the president's work», – ProTenge.kz wrote on its Instagram account on March 27.