Affiliated media: News agency KazTAG, Online media

Incident date: November 22, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: News agency KazTAG

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty, Almaty

Additional information:

On November 22, the website of the news agency KazTAG was subjected to massive DDoS attacks, which led to the fact that from about 12 AM to 9 PM, the website was inaccessible to readers. «All this time, our IT specialists were methodically sorting out the problem, and only now, late in the evening, we managed to establish that the cause was powerful DDoS attacks», — the editorial office said in a statement published on social media. The editorial board links the attacks to high-profile stories about corruption in Kazakhstan. In the evening of November 23, KazTAG reported that the DDoS attack on the website continues. The editorial board published an image — a report on attempts to access the website, covering a period of three seconds.