“Media Advocate” initiative was informed that the work of Politik.am news website was temporarily stopped because of the DDOS attack. Specialists have been trying to restore the work of the news agency for several hours.
We contacted editor-in-chief the news outlet, Boris Murazi, who told us that according to experts, the website was accessed from 3.000 fake IPs at once, which, in fact, disrupted it. He added that the protection of the website is proper, they have not suffered much damage, but, in fact, they have been unable to work for 8 hours.
Speaking about the reasons for the attack on the website, Murazi noted. “In response to the campaign initiated against the Catholicos, we published the article “Be fruitful, cows, life is short,” in which we criticized the standpoint of the government and the campaign against the Catholicos. The article had a lot of views and a few hours later the website disrupted.”
