Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Attack on the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities (ABAE)
ABAE/abae.gob.ve was listed in public lists of websites that went down during #OpVenezuela and in an official/social media report by Mincyt regarding cyberattacks. The evidence supports the fact that the website was affected, but does not confirm any impact on space operations, data loss, or the exact duration of the incident.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
ABAE/abae.gob.ve was among the inactive websites during #OpVenezuela. The confirmed impact is limited solely to the website’s availability; no data exposure or impact on space operations has been confirmed.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- Service outage
- Confidence
- Medium
ABAE/abae.gob.ve appears on lists of downed websites and in official and social media contexts related to Mincyt, but no technical telemetry or victim incident report was found.
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Limited
Public website availability was maintained, but no impact on mission or system operations, nor any data compromise, was confirmed.
Timeline
Anonymous identified the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities (ABAE) as a suspected victim.