Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Attack on the Caracas Lottery
On August 17, 2024, the hacktivist group Anonymous—specifically claimed by the user X (formerly Twitter) @W0nd3rGhost, launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the Venezuelan government organization Lotería de Caracas. The attack caused the organization’s website to be temporarily unavailable as part of the #OpVenezuela campaign. It is unclear whether any data was exfiltrated or whether there was any material loss beyond the website’s downtime.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
W0nd3rGhost is alleged to have carried out a DDoS attack against Loteria de Caracas. No independent outage report, victim statement, technical telemetry, data exposure, or lasting operational impact was found for this specific target/date.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- Distributed denial of service
- Confidence
- Low
The available evidence indicates that this was a DDoS attack orchestrated by an actor against the mentioned target. No statement from the victim, no independent report on the service disruption, and no technical telemetry data corresponding to this specific target and date have been found.
Severity assessment
Low- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Limited
The impact of DDoS attacks targeting specific targets has not been independently confirmed; evidence is limited to an author’s claim or a weak reproduction, in addition to the general context of the campaign.
Timeline
Anonymous listed the Caracas Lottery as an alleged victim.