The three media organizations are all known for critical reporting that has angered the Duterte administration. Vera Files has a smaller following compared to other two media outlets. Rappler is the top digital native news organization in the country. While it lost its broadcast franchise in 2020, its digital media assets have a significant online footprint. There have been similar attacks in recent months against alternative media outlets but this is the first time that several major Philippine media outlets have been attacked in succeeding days.ĪBS-CBN is the largest media network in the Philippines. ![]() While the media giant did not confirm the reason for the outage, chatter in online hacker communities insinuated that it was also a DDoS attack. Earlier, on the same day, the website of ABS-CBN News also went down. On Thursday, December 23, less than a week after the attacks against the three media groups, Rappler was once again subjected to another, more intense DDoS attack. The attacks appear to be part of a ramp-up activity. ![]() “It appears that in this case, someone repurposed infra used in SEO for this purpose,” said Tord Lundström, technical director at Sweden-based digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media. Patterns derived from a comparative analysis of attack logs sourced from the servers of the three news websites indicated that the ones behind the attack probably hired a black market service that was involved in, or had access to, infrastructure used in black hat SEO techniques.
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