CPJ condemns cyberattack on Konde.co in Indonesia

The independent Indonesian news website Konde.co was hit by a cyberattack on 24 October. CPJ condemned the attack and demanded a thorough investigation in order to find the attackers.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on 24 October 2022 momentarily knocked down the independent Indonesian news website Konde.co, according to press sources and the publication’s editor-in-chief, Luviana Ariyanti. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the attack and demanded that Indonesian authorities conduct their own inquiry into the cyberattack on the news website and identify its offenders.