FREEDOM TV under a massive DDoS attack

Photo by FREEDOM

On September 22, the digital news aggregator FREEDOM faced a massive DDoS attack, reports the aggregator on their website.

According to them, the attack took place in the evening in two waves. The website received over 30 million requests in a short time from Singapore, USA, United Kingdom, Thailand, Germany, Indonesia, France, China, Hong Kong and other countries.

Technicians of the state enterprise "International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine" were able to quickly overcome the problem.

The news aggregator's website continued to work, but was difficult to access in the countries from which the attack was being carried out.

"International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine" assumes that Russian hackers are behind the attack.

On January 25, the websites of the TV channels "Dim" and "FREEDOM" crashed due to a large-scale cyber attack on a data center.

On January 29, two websites of the state-owned "International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine" – those of the FREEDOM TV channel and the FREEDOM digital news aggregator – were subjected to a massive DDoS attack. The company believes that Russian hackers could be behind the incident.

On the night of March 13, he website of the digital news aggregator FREEDOM (part of the state-owned "International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine") withstood a mass DDoS attack.

On April 17, 2024 the Ukrainian international broadcasting channel FREEDOM TV reported an interference in the channel's work: the channel's satellite signal was blocked and the content was temporarily replaced.