Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- 2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel
- In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists
- Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows
- No justice for journalists targeted by Israel despite strong evidence of war crime
- On Edge: What the US election could mean for journalists and global press freedom
- Forced to flee: Exiled journalists face unsafe passage and transnational repression
- Israel-Gaza war brings 2023 journalist killings to devastating high
- 2023 prison census: Jailed journalist numbers near record high; Israel imprisonments spike
- Haiti joins list of countries where killers of journalists most likely to go unpunished
Reporter Without Borders
Cyberattack on IPI: Evidence Points to Retaliation for Press Freedom Work in Hungary
The International Press Institute (IPI) said in a statement that since Sept. 1, the organization has been battling “a targeted and sustained cyberattack” that seems to be retaliation for advocacy work on behalf of independent media in Hungary, amid a spate of similar attacks since this summer.
In an IPI press release, the organization said the attack started with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crashed their website for three days. The website has since been restored and security bolstered, but DDoS attacks have continued.
“This ongoing cyberattack is the most brazen and direct attack on IPI’s online infrastructure in our organization’s history,” the organization said in the statement.
Read the IPI’s detailed account of the timeline, scope, and mode of the cyberattack against IPI and what steps they have taken to combat it.