Aporrea.org
Communications · Non-profit aporrea.org
- Incidents
- 2
- High impact
- 0
- First seen
- Feb 16, 2017
- Latest seen
- May 7, 2023
Linked incidents
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.
Aporrea.org suffers a prolonged DDoS attack that leaves it inaccessible for several days (February 2017)
The Venezuelan news website Aporrea.org suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that began on February 16, 2017, and kept it totally or partially offline for about a week, until service was restored around February 22. According to the outlet itself, the attack generated a flood of traffic—up to 17 million network packets per second—from a wide variety of sources, which overwhelmed its network and prevented users from accessing the site. Administrators detected sources of the attack in Venezuela, the United States, Brazil, China, and a European country, and had to migrate to another server and hire a network protection service to get back online. The perpetrator was not identified; Aporrea attributed the attack to attempts to silence its critical editorial stance. Note: The mention of “17 million megabytes per second” is not supported by the sources, which refer to 17 million packets per second.