National Assembly Reports Cyberattack on Its Website
The Venezuelan National Assembly publicly reported that its website had been the target of a cyberattack and that it would publish its updates on Telegram while the site remained down. White_Hunters/Anonymous had claimed responsibility for an attack on associated domains days earlier. There is no public evidence of a data breach.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
The National Assembly confirmed that its website was the target of a cyberattack and was down, so it would use Telegram for its announcements. There are no public indications of a data breach.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- Service outage
- Confidence
- High
The victim reported a cyberattack against its website and the suspension of the portal; the DDoS classification is based on the actor’s claims and the context of the wave of attacks.
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Degraded
- Public confidence
- Moderate
- Recoverability
- Regular
The availability of the legislative portal was affected and publicly confirmed, but no data loss or complete interruption of legislative functions was reported.
Timeline
Anonymous identified the Venezuelan National Assembly as an alleged victim.