Attacks on media outlets and organisations, Nova.rs, Radar, and Danas, Belgrade, 24.01.2026.

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Attacks on media outlets and organisations, Nova.rs, Radar, and Danas, Belgrade, 24.01.2026.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Organization
  • Organisation name
    Nova.rs, Radar, and Danas

  • Media outlet

  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Veran Matic

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    24.01.2026
  • City
    Beograd
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Organized groups
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Other means of incidents and attacks
  • Type of incident
    Attacks on media outlets and organizations
  • Type of attack
    Hacking attack

  • Action by the authorities

  • Legal status of the case
    The procedure is in the phase of gathering information about all the circumstances of the case
  • Type of violation
    Hacker attack

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    No
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association reacted publicly

A new large-scale bot attack has been recorded on the Instagram accounts of the media outlets Nova.rs, Radar, and Danas. The attack began today at around 4 p.m., when these accounts gained approximately 20,000 new followers each within a very short period of time, and the number of fake followers continues to grow.

Following the temporary suspension of several Nova.rs Instagram profiles, as well as the permanent suspension of the weekly magazine Radar’s account, Meta responded to complaints and reinstated the accounts. However, the disputed and clearly fake accounts that followed them were not removed. As a result, the number of followers on Nova.rs has increased by 190,000 over the course of one month, now totaling 404,000 followers, while the number of followers of the weekly magazine Radar has doubled and now stands at 210,000. Additionally, the number of followers of Danas on the same platform has increased from 108,000 to 231,000 just from Monday to today.

https://anem.org.rs/sr/strane/anem-alarm-novi-veliki-botovski-napad-na-nova-rs-i-radar-na-instagramu