Daniyar Moldabekov

Affiliated media: Telegram channel KazakhJanuary, Journalist

Incident date: April 24, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty, Almaty

Additional information:

On the Facebook page of the author of the Telegram channel KazakhJanuary, journalist Daniyar Moldabekov, under his post «Bots launched a counterattack», numerous comments started coming in from obscure accounts, such as «Go back to your aul», «Block everyone», «Such thing is on my channel? Get out!», «Get off my channel», etc. The journalist suggested that this was a prepared attack which was planned to be launched after his personal Telegram account was hacked (his personal account was hacked on April 22 and had been in the hands of attackers for some time).