Ataque reportado e indisponibilidad temporal del portal de Cazadores de Fake News

What this source supports

• the official Cazadores account said the site had been under attack for several hours
• the post said the site was temporarily inaccessible
• the post linked the timing to an IAPA award announced two days earlier

Evidence limits

The post confirms the victim statement and availability condition, but does not identify DDoS traffic, duration, recovery or actor.

Relevance to this case

Strongest first-party source for the event date and temporary inaccessibility.

What this source supports

• Cazadores reported that its site was under attack and temporarily inaccessible on 14 September
• the victim director described it as the second attack in less than one week
• several X accounts reportedly posted screenshots of the unavailable portal and claimed the current event
• the prior episode was described as DDoS traffic directed at a specific article

Evidence limits

The DDoS wording in the direct quotation clearly describes the prior episode. The current event’s mechanism, traffic, duration, recovery and claimant accounts are not publicly preserved in this page.

Relevance to this case

Strong contemporary victim-side reporting for occurrence, temporary unavailability and recurrence; medium technical weight for DDoS classification.

What this source supports

• Radio Fe y Alegría reproduced the official temporary-inaccessibility warning
• the article described this as a second DDoS attack in less than one week

Evidence limits

Contemporary but derivative of the victim post; it provides no traffic data, independent outage observation or attribution.

Relevance to this case

Retained as near-contemporary publication corroboration and a bridge to the exact first-party post.

What this source supports

• IPYS lists Cazadores de Fake News among portals that went offline after DDoS attacks in 2023
• the report documents six DoS/DDoS incidents affecting five media/civil-society targets

Evidence limits

Annual aggregate report with no target-specific telemetry, duration or attribution; it corroborates classification and availability, not the mechanism independently.

Relevance to this case

Strong systematic annual corroboration of the DDoS categorization and reported offline state.

What this source supports

• Freedom House records that Cazadores reported temporary site inaccessibility due to DDoS in September 2023
• the report describes it as the second such attack in one week

Evidence limits

Retrospective secondary research with no published telemetry, downtime measurement or independent attribution; it is not technically independent of victim reporting.

Relevance to this case

High-quality contextual corroboration of the reported DDoS/availability event, but not forensic confirmation.