Communications · Private · eldiario.com
On July 26, 2020, the independent Venezuelan news portal El Diario (elDiario.com) suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that rendered its website inaccessible for approximately three hours. According to the outlet’s own report, in less than an hour it received more than 18 million requests to access its homepage, with a single IP address sending half a million requests, originating primarily from Russia, China, and Nigeria. The outlet framed the incident as part of a pattern of DDoS attacks used as a mechanism of censorship against the independent press in Venezuela.
