Dinara Yegeubayeva

Affiliated media: YouTube channel DINARION, Blogger

Incident date: May 7, 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:

Blogger, author of the YouTube channel DINARION Dinara Yegeubayeva said about the attack of bots in Instagram. «Yesterday, the number of subscribers on my instagram page was 62.8K. In the evening, the figure began to increase in front of my eyes. In the last 12 hours, it has grown to 76.9K», — Yegeubayeva said on Facebook on May 7. All accounts were created on February 2, she said. Yegeubayeva’s followers suggested that such actions could put her account into a «shadow ban» or Instagram could block the page for suspicious activity. The journalist decided to close her page for new subscribers.