Distributed denial of service
"Fake News Hunters" Suffers Second DDoS Attack in a Week
On September 14, 2023, Cazadores de Fake News suffered a DDoS attack that temporarily rendered its website inaccessible. Espacio Público reported that this was the second attack in less than a week, following the publication of fact-check articles on political disinformation.
Overview
Missing evidence
Exact downtimeconfirmed actor
Impact details
The portal was temporarily inaccessible during the second DDoS attack in less than a week.
public websitefact checking 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
A documented DDoS attack against the website of a media outlet or civil society organization, with limited impact on availability and no data compromise.
Service disrupted Availability
Timeline
Discovery
Cazadores de Fake News Suffers Second DDoS Attack in a Week