Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta, Newspaper

Incident date: April 13, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

On April 13, Novaya Gazeta published an appeal after threats from Chechnya. Soon, the publication’s website stopped working. "Tech support is informing us of a possible DDoS attack", said journalists from the newspaper on Facebook. As of 11:30 p.m. in Moscow, the site started working again.