Affiliated media: Uralskaya Nedelya, Online media

Incident date: April 23, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Uralskaya Nedelya

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Uralskaya Nedelya reported a bot attack under the article «Tokayev threatened to punish those responsible for disrupting road construction in the southern regions of the West Kazakhstan Region». «It is not the channel’s subscribers but left-wing accounts who write the comments. They were set up to write positive comments. I wonder how long it will last and how often pro-government comments will be written under our posts. And the main question is how much it costs, because this is paid from our taxes», — the editorial board wrote.