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 The massive attack began at 6:00 p.m.
(00:00 GMT) on Friday /
World Press Freedom courtesy
photo
11,000 bots slam Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa in a direct attack |
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By the A.M. Costa
Rica staff
World Press
Freedom states that the influential
Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, the oldest
newspaper in Nicaragua, reported on Sunday
that its website is suffering a
large-scale cyber-attack, which it
described as "a direct attack on freedom
of press and freedom of expression."
"More than 11,000 bots per second have tried to enter the La Prensa website, in a new cyber- attack to make it collapse," that newspaper said on social networks. The newspaper was founded on 2 March 1926, The massive attack began at 6:00 p.m. (00:00 GMT) on Friday and "after more than 24 hours of attempts the site www.laprensa.com.ni continues to operate, but slowly," the newspaper said. According to the computer manager of La Prensa, Genaro Aguilar, it is "a massive attack that is known as DDOS" and consists of generating thousands of robots or fake users who try to enter the attacked page to block the entry to legitimate users and collapse the site. "It's an excessive amount of attempts to enter La Prensa, there are more than 11,000 requests per second, which causes that it operates slowly and cannot upload fresh news," he said. That type of attack is carried out by "paid hackers" who generate thousands of "bots" and direct them in this case to the La Prensa server, the IT manager added. For his part, the editor of the La Prensa publishing group, Jaime Chamorro Cardenal, described the cyber-attack as "a direct attack on press freedom and freedom of expression." Chamorro Cardenal recalled that the government presided over by the Sandinista Daniel Ortega has withheld 92 tons of paper, ink, plates, rubber, developer, and spare parts for the press, which has put the circulation of the printed version of the newspaper in danger. La Prensa reports that the Sandinista government intends that independent printed media stop circulating in Nicaragua. The retention of raw material from La Prensa in Nicaragua comes amid a sociopolitical crisis that, since April 2018, has left hundreds dead, disappeared, and imprisoned, as well as tens of thousands of exiles, mostly after protesting against President Ortega. During the crisis, several television programs disappeared, one television channel went off the air, and the National Police remained at the site. At least two radio stations in the city of Leon were sabotaged several times. Additionally, the famous newspaper Q'Hubo disappeared from the streets, while El Nuevo Diario, La Prensa, Metro, and Hoy reduced the number of its pages. As a result of the violence and siege by the police and pro-government fanatics, at least 68 journalists have had to leave the country, according to the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, which between April 2018 and March 2019 also recorded at least 1,080 cases of violation of press freedom, including assaults, censorship, threats, and murder, among other transgressions. Nicaragua is going through a severe crisis that has left 325 dead since April 2018, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), although some groups raise that number to 568 the fatalities, while the executive there only recognizes 199 and decries a coup attempt. ---------------- Could Nicaragua’s
humanitarian crisis affect the economy
in all of Central America? We would like
to know your thoughts on this story.
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