The Insider - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: The Insider, Online media

Incident date: March 29, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The «clone» of the media The Insider, publishing pro-Kremlin materials, appeared on the Internet. The materials of the pseudo-Insider regularly appear in the search output of the service Yandex.News. The domain name of the «clone» website was registered in 2019; it started to be actively updated during the war with Ukraine.

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