Mikhail Kozachkov

Affiliated media: Telegram channel Kozachkov offside , Journalist

Incident date: October 17, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Mikhail Kozachkov's Facebook page

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty, Almaty

Additional information:

On October 17, the author of the Telegram channel Kozachkov offside, journalist Mikhail Kozachkov, said that cyberattacks had intensified. «The channel was flooded with about 40 thousands bots, and the chat — about 70-80 thousand, all this in one night», — said Kozachkov, reporting that in total, there are more than 300 thousand accounts in the blacklist of the channel, mostly with nicknames from India, Pakistan and the Arab world. There are also more than 200 thousand bots in the blacklist of the chat. In total, over 500 thousand bots in a fortnight. In addition, subscribers of the Telegram channel Kozachkov offside started receiving messages that its author Mikhail Kozachkov is homosexual. The journalist denied this information. According to Mikhail, he received a private message that there was a certain customer who had hired some hackers for money, whose task was to destroy his channel.