Qurium Media Foundation has reported a campaign of DDoS attacks on Filipino media outlets and human rights organisations that appear to be coming from the country’s Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Army.
During the past month, Qurium has received brief but frequent denial attacks against the Philippine alternative media outlets Bulatlat and AlterMidya, as well as the human rights group Karapatan,” said the Swedish digital rights, data protection, and internet security NGO in its online report.
The flooding of the websites with superfluous requests to overload them and render them inaccessible occurred 17, 18 and 20 May, 6 June, and again during the late night and early morning of 22–23 June.