Affiliated media: KazakhJanuary, Telegram channel

Incident date: April 21, 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:

The author of the Telegram channel KazakhJanuary (Fifth of January), journalist Daniyar Moldabekov, discovered a sharp increase in the number of subscribers. By evening, he started removing them manually, and the next morning he found that he had about three times more subscribers. «The day before yesterday (April 20) I had a post in my Telegram channel about the business of the president’s nephew with a certain Russian citizen, which they are doing in the FEZ, and yesterday — about Aliya Nursultanovna. (...) I am constantly writing about Kantar, the text of my book on this subject is almost ready. Every week, I cover the trial of the airport seizure case. More than a month ago, I was attacked in the entranceway... In short, something is going on...», — says Daniyar Moldabekov. To stop the influx of bots, Moldabekov made the channel private and changed the link.