The Floresa.co website experienced a problem

Description

The Floresa.co website experienced a disruption on Sunday, May 7 2023.

That day, the Floresa.co IT team received notifications via the Malcare plugin installed on the media's website. The notification, related to the existence of Malware. Then it says that the website has been hacked and needs action to clean it up.

Floresa.co, the website uses CMS wordpress. After there was a disturbance or digital attack on the Floresa website last year, the media management finally used a plugin called Malcare, which helps them detect realtime disturbances to their website.

They also used an app, to help clean up malware detected that Sunday. The Floresa.co management then cleaned up the virus using the plugin.

Floresa.co is a local independent news outlet in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. They often publish reports that criticize the authorities.

Information
Number of attacked persons or entities related to media
1
Do they work as freelance or media?
Yes
Position in media
Status of journalists
Gender
Data not collected
Country
East Nusa Tenggara
Full name or name of group
Unidentified
Background (state actor or non state actor)
Gender
Attack mention about gender background/sexual wording?
No
Date of incident
Type of incident
Hacking
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