Mediaroom.am - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Mediaroom.am, Online publication

Incident date: March 21, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: The Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression (CPFE)

Location: Armenia, Yerevan

Additional information:

On 21 March, a cyber attack was launched on the Mediaroom.am website. The website editor Artyun Mkrtchyan said that there were 100 thousand attempts of attack from Chinese and Malaysian IP-addresses. The functioning of the website has been restored since.

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