The Village Kazakhstan - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: The Village Kazakhstan, Online media

Incident date: May 24, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

Aysana Ashim, the editor-in-chief of The Village Kazakhstan, reported on Telegram that recently, she observed sudden activity under a publication about the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Commentators left praise messages with the same tone and attitude every minute under the three-day-old news story about the CSTO summit in Moscow.

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