The website is currently contending with a large‑scale distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) attack, described by its operators as the most extensive in the outlet’s history.
Threat actors have mobilized a botnet comprising thousands of compromised computers worldwide, directing massive volumes of malicious traffic toward the site’s servers. The flood of requests is designed to overwhelm infrastructure, slow performance and impede user access.
Hosting and security teams have responded by implementing new filtering rules, blocking malicious IP addresses and adjusting defenses as the attackers modify their tactics. Each layer of protection is expected to diminish the impact of subsequent attack waves.
The source of the assault has not been publicly identified, but the objective appears to be the disruption of the outlet’s reporting and the restriction of audience access.
The outlet previously endured a week‑long DDoS campaign in 2018, which at its peak generated more than 918,000 malicious hits in a single day.
Current activity exceeds that earlier incident in both scale and technical sophistication, with attackers continuously evolving their methods to bypass existing safeguards.
Observers note that independent media outlets that diverge from mainstream narratives have historically faced coordinated cyber and financial pressure campaigns.
Despite the ongoing disruptions, the outlet has affirmed its intention to maintain regular publication of its content.
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