Distributed denial of service
Aporrea.org reports a DDoS attack against its website in May 2023
On May 7, 2023, Aporrea reported a DDoS attack against aporrea.org, with the attack resuming on May 8 after a temporary pause. Public records and subsequent annual reports document the case as part of the digital attacks of 2023.
Overview
Missing evidence
Exact downtimeconfirmed actor
Impact details
DDoS attack against the portal; the exact duration of the downtime could not be determined from the public sources consulted.
public websitenews portal
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- Distributed denial of service
- Confidence
- High
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- Limited
- Recoverability
- Supplemented
Documented DDoS attack against a media/civil society portal; no data compromise.
Service disrupted Availability
Timeline
Discovery
Aporrea.org reports a DDoS attack against its website in May 2023