Attacked by AI-cyberbots: Please help us fund critical security upgrades

by ECM | April 10, 2026 7:50 pm

By Miriam Raftery

April 10, 2026 (San Diego’s East County) – Our East County Magazine website is being attacked by AI-cyberbots that have repeatedly crashed it. Our new website designed in WordPress is ready to launch with great new features for readers – but we can’t launch without critical security upgrade programs that cost thousands of dollars.  Please help! Donate at https;//www.eastcountymedia.org./donate[1].

We are also seeking major sponsors who may want to sponsor any special section on the new site, as well as angel donors/philanthropists who would love to earn the loyalty of our many readers.

Our audience is huge—more than 10 million hits and 650,000 unique visitors each month! Our success in growing our readership is unfortunately also attacking cyberbots seeking to cause harm. It’s critical to protect our 18 years of news articles on our existing site as well as protect the new site design immediately.

Call 619 698 7617 or email editor@eastcountymagazine.org[2] for more information.

 

Thanks to those who have already donated via our newsletter request this morning –but a lot more is needed to fund these costly security programs.

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