Vyacheslav Yashchenko

Affiliated media: Caucasian Knot, Correspondent

Incident date: January 24, 2024

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Russia, Volgograd Oblast, Volgograd

Additional information:

The correspondent of Caucasian Knot in Volgograd Vyacheslav Yashchenko was subjected to a spam attack: his phone began receiving numerous calls and messages from microfinance organisations. This happened after Yashenko’s phone was left unlocked for about a day with law enforcers, who seized the device during a search. Yashenko is a witness in the case of military «fakes» (Paragraph E of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) opened against Yevgeny Kochegin, ex-coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Volgograd.