Newpost - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Newpost, News agency

Incident date: May 25, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

On May 25, at 4:00 am, the server of the Newpost news agency was damaged for an unknown reason. Attempts by the server administration to restore it were unsuccessful, the site was moved to a new server, but the news articles from May 23 and May 24 disappeared. The fti socialmedia subdomain was also damaged.

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