Affiliated media: Kit, Mailing list (Meduza project)

Incident date: March 28, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Meduza

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Kit mailing list was attacked using forced subscriptions. Attackers signed up nearly a million real email addresses to Kit in two days – probably taken from a spam mailing database. As a result, email services started blocking Kit as spam.