Detector Media website under DDoS attack (updated)

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The Detector Media website sustained a DDoS attack today, August 4, Detector Media reports.

According to the media outlet, the attack began at 3:30 p.m.

“The website operates intermittently. The DM technicians continue their efforts to resolve the problem,” the post says.

The media outlet recommends following them on social media: Telegram, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Viber.

Updated on August 5, 10:15 a.m. In a comment to IMI, Detector Media chief editor Hala Sklyarevska said that the website faced attacks regularly, but this one was among the most intense they have observed.

“We were attacked by multiple networks with dynamic IP addresses, with a high request intensity,” she said.

Hala Sklyarevska does not rule out that the attack could have been orchestrated by Russian forces, since the media outlet debunks Russian propaganda.

“We are attacked on the regular, so we cannot associate this attack with any specific piece of reporting. But we constantly debunk Russian propaganda, and over the several years of the war we have received various threats precisely due to our work in combating propaganda, so I assume that this intense attack also has to do with this area of our work. The previous one took place immediately after the release of our investigation into Telegram channels recruiting Ukrainian teenagers for arson attacks,” the chief editor said.

As of the morning of August 5, the attacks had stopped.

On May 12, the LIGA.net website sustained a mass DDoS attack. The attack targeted the column by strategic communications consultant Nadia Pototska which discusses the value gaps in Ukrainian society in view of the conflict that arose around the blogger Anna Alkhim.