Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Attack on the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV)
In August 2024, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) was the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The incident was part of a broader wave of cyberattacks against Venezuelan government institutions following the July 2024 presidential election. Hacktivist groups affiliated with Anonymous, operating under the #CyberHuntersOp campaign, claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused the bank’s website to display a 503 Service Unavailable error. There is no evidence to suggest that any data was leaked or that the bank suffered any material losses beyond the temporary disruption of its web services.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
Koeyu Digital and Noti Veraz report that the BCV is among the Venezuelan institutions affected by the wave of DDoS cyberattacks in August 2024. The confirmed impact is a temporary disruption in website availability; no data breaches or financial losses have been confirmed.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- Distributed denial of service
- Confidence
- Medium
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Degraded
- Public confidence
- Moderate
- Recoverability
- Supplemented
Media reports point to BCV as the source of the DDoS attack, but the impact is limited to website availability, and no data breach or disruption to the payment system has been confirmed.
Timeline
Anonymous identified the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) as an alleged victim.