Anonymous Claims Responsibility for DDoS Attack Against the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (August 29, 2024)
On August 29, 2024, the official website of the Venezuelan Presidency (presidencia.gob.ve) was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack as part of the #CyberHuntersOp campaign. The attack, claimed by actors associated with Anonymous and Jh0n_Wick-Bl4ckH4t, caused widespread connection delays and the display of unauthorized access error pages. While the website’s availability was significantly impacted, there is no confirmed evidence of a data breach or permanent material loss as a result of the incident.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
CNN Chile and Check Point confirm that the Presidency (presidencia.gob.ve) was affected by the #OpVenezuela DDoS campaign in early August 2024. Evidence confirms an outage during the campaign period, but not a data breach or the date of the perpetrator’s claim—August 29, 2024—which had been previously reported.
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
Independent sources confirm that the Presidency’s website experienced an outage related to a DDoS attack in early August, during the #OpVenezuela campaign. No data breach has been reported or confirmed in connection with this incident.
Timeline
Anonymous listed the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as an alleged victim.