FREEDOM TV website under a mass DDoS attack

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The FREEDOM TV website sustained a mass DDoS attack on January 17, supposedly by Russian hackers.

The Institute of Mass Information was informed about this by the press office of the state enterprise International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine (IMBPU), which includes the TV channel.

According to the press office, the attack occurred in two waves. The website received over 5 million requests in a short time, coming from almost 80 countries, and continued to work with minor complications.

DDoS requests were coming from nearly 80 countries, mostly from the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, the Philippines, Brazil, Canada, Peru, Thailand.

Technicians of the IMBPU were able to quickly resolve the problem. The website stayed up, but accessing it was difficult in the countries the attack was being carried out from.

Past attacks on the TV channel

Russian hackers have repeatedly targeted the FREEDOM TV website.

On September 22, 2024, FREEDOM TV faced a mass DDoS attack on their website.

On January 29, 2024, 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, 2024, the 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, FREEDOM TV reported an interference in the channel's work: the satellite signal was being jammed and the content was temporarily replaced.