Detector Media reports a DDoS attack targeting their website today, August 4.
According to the team, the attack started at 15:30.
“Right now the site is working with glitches. The DM technicians continue to work on resolving the issue,” the message says.
The media outlet advises following them on social media: Telegram, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Viber.
In a comment to IMI, Detector Media chief editor Hala Sklyarevska said that the DM website was targeted regularly, but this attack was among the most intense.
“We are being attacked by several networks with dynamic IP addresses, with a high request intensity,” she said.
Hala Sklyarevska did not rule out that the attack might be perpetrated 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 specifically for our work in combating propaganda, so I assume that this intense attack is also related to this area of our activity. The previous one occurred immediately after the release of our investigation into Telegram channels that recruit Ukrainian teenagers for arson attacks,” the chief editor said.
As of the morning of August 5, the attacks have ceased.
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.