Affiliated media: Ulysmedia.kz, Online media

Incident date: March 7, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Astana

Additional information:

On March 7, a big interview with the Akim of the East Kazakhstan region Danial Akhmetov was published on YouTube channel UlysMedia. The video was viewed by over 16 thousand people, who left over 600 comments. The journalist of the YouTube channel Obozhayu Askhat Niyazov, who has been unsuccessfully trying to meet Akhmetov for several months, noticed that under the recording of this programme, there is activity of fake accounts. «The newly created accounts under the interview with the Akim of the East Kazakhstan region praise and defend Danial Akhmetov», — the journalist wrote on social networks.