Affiliated media: OC-Media, News website

Incident date: October 29, 2020

Attack type:

• Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Echo Kavkaza, Georgian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

News website OC-Media was a subject of the hacker attack. Hackers used the method of «brute force», apparently to gain access to the website. The website was restored in a few hours. Robin Fabbro, editor of the English service of the OC-Media, stated that the attack on the website was almost certainly linked to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.