KazTAG - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: KazTAG, Online media

Incident date: October 14, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

On October 14, the editorial office of the KazTAG news agency reported a cyberattack. «We continue to be DDoS-attacked and attacked with spam, over 61 thousand requests to the website in the moment», — Amir Kasenov, editor-in-chief of KazTAG, wrote on Facebook. Administrators of the website turned on protection — a system to check the security of the connection to the Internet portal. After that, the website continued to work, but with a delay of fractions of a second during the first visit to the website, due to the triggering of the protection.

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