Alexey Volosevich

Affiliated media: asiaterra.info , Journalist, Editor

Incident date: August 11, 2019

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: АССА

Location: Uzbekistan, Tashkent

Additional information:

On 10th and 11th August, the website Asiaterra.info was victim to a DDOS attack in Uzbekistan. Readers quickly linked this to a publication about a car accident in the centre of Tashkent, in which the suspected culprit is the son-in-law of the president of Uzbekistan.