On the evening of March 5, Zhytomyr.info website sustained a DDoS-attack. The hackers have made changes to the news report about the shelling of settlements, according to the media’s website.
According to the newspaper, the website was unavailable for several minutes due to a large number of requests, and readers saw that changes were made to the news report about the shelling of settlements.
“Experts have confirmed that this was a DDoS attack; after access to the website was blocked for users from russia and Belarus, Zhytomyr.info continued to work stably,” the newspaper writes.
The first screenshot shows the news posted at 19:00.
Below are the edits made by the perpetrators of the DDoS attack in Russian.
Zhytomyr.info reported on shelling strikes in the oblast and the city. In particular, the media outlet covered the March 1 strike on Zhytomyr that resulted in residential building on Saburova St catching fire and windows being broken in a local hospital and the oblast perinatal centre. As reported by the SES. 10 private buildings were damaged, two people killed, three more injured. Zhytomyr OSA chair Vitaliy Bunchenko said during the morning briefing on March 2 that the shelling strike had killed three persons: emergency responders had retrieved another woman’s body from under the rubble, 16 people including 7 children were wounded. A video of the strike aftermath with an account by an eyewitness is available here.
Approximately at 8 o’clock in the morning of March 4 Russian troops targeted a school in downtown Zhytomyr in an air strike. Rescuers evacuated five people from the ruined lyceum No. 25 on Mala Berdychivska St. No casualties of the air strike have been reported as of now. A video of the aftermath is available here.