Distributed denial of service Public report: Date confidence: Medium

DDoS reportados contra el portal de Aporrea.org

El portal de Aporrea.org estaba siendo atacado mediante denegación de servicio distribuida según el aviso de la cuenta oficial @aporrea del 7 de mayo de 2023. El 8 de mayo, Gonzalo Gómez Freire informó primero que Aporrea seguía bajo ataque y luego que la actividad se había reanudado tras un cese momentáneo. IPYS Venezuela reportó posteriormente que Aporrea estuvo fuera de línea después de ataques DDoS, y la CIDH/OEA registró el reporte y su repetición. No se publicaron telemetría, duración exacta, método de inundación ni identidad del atacante. Las alegaciones de que fue un ataque internacional, pagado en Venezuela o vinculado a un gobierno no están verificadas.

Overview

Missing evidence

telemetría independiente de tráficohora exacta de inicio, indisponibilidad y recuperacióndeclaración técnica del alojamiento, CDN o proveedormétodo de inundación y volumenactor verificable

Impact details

Aporrea reportó un DDoS el 7 de mayo y su reanudación el 8; IPYS registró que el portal estuvo fuera de línea después de ataques DDoS. La duración exacta y el alcance técnico no están disponibles. No existe evidencia pública de acceso, alteración o extracción de datos.

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Classification & severity

Category
Availability
Subtype
Distributed denial of service
Confidence
Medium

La víctima identificó públicamente DDoS y IPYS registró indisponibilidad posterior; no hay telemetría pública para confirmación técnica independiente.

Severity assessment

Medium
Functional impact
Degraded (non-critical)
Affected scope
Organization-wide
Critical service
None
Public confidence
Limited

Disponibilidad del portal informativo afectada durante actividad reportada en dos días, sin duración exacta, servicio crítico, datos comprometidos ni pérdidas confirmadas.

Reported disruption Availability

Timeline

Disclosure

La cuenta oficial de Aporrea informó que su web estaba siendo atacada mediante DDoS; no publicó telemetría, duración ni actor.

Update

Gonzalo Gómez Freire informó que el ataque se había reanudado después de un cese momentáneo; sus alegaciones sobre origen, pago o gobierno no fueron verificadas.

Evidence & sources

6 sources

Portal de Aporrea sufrio un ataque DDoS

Espacio Público May 9, 2023
Corroborating Media report Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • Espacio Público reported Aporrea official account described an ongoing DDoS on 7 May
  • the article reported a victim-side statement that the activity returned on 8 May after a pause
  • the article preserved but did not verify international, payer or government allegations

Evidence limits

Contemporary civil-society report dependent on victim-side posts; no traffic logs, provider statement or independent duration measurement.

Relevance to this case

Detailed secondary bridge to the three first-party reports and their exact chronology.

Corroborating Public record Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • CIDH/OEA recorded that Aporrea reported a DDoS on 7 May and that it reportedly repeated on 8 May
  • footnote 3798 cites the @aporrea post and Espacio Público

Evidence limits

Authoritative institutional record, but its incident statement is expressly derivative of Aporrea and Espacio Público and provides no technical validation.

Relevance to this case

Preserves authoritative later documentation of the reported chronology while making source dependence explicit.

Primary Social media Source confidence: High

What this source supports

  • the official Aporrea account reported its website was being attacked through DDoS
  • the account said it had been months since similar attacks

Evidence limits

Direct victim report, not independent telemetry; it does not establish exact start, duration, traffic characteristics or actor.

Relevance to this case

Strongest first-party source for the reported attack and date.

Gonzalo Gómez Freire afirma que Aporrea continúa bajo ataque

Gonzalo Gómez Freire (@GonzaloAporrea) May 8, 2023
Context Social media Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • Gómez Freire reported Aporrea remained under attack on 8 May
  • the card visibly quotes the official @aporrea DDoS report
  • he alleged an international commissioned attack paid from Venezuela

Evidence limits

Victim-side contextual statement. The international, commissioning and payer allegations are unsupported attribution and are not accepted as fact.

Relevance to this case

Supports persistence into 8 May and preserves the unverified attribution language as an attributed claim.

Primary Social media Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • Gómez Freire reported that the attack resumed after a momentary pause
  • he said the attack had started the previous day
  • he alleged government interest and payment

Evidence limits

Direct victim-side recurrence report, but no independent timing measurement. The government and payer allegations remain unverified.

Relevance to this case

Strongest direct source for the reported recurrence on 8 May.

Corroborating Public record Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • IPYS lists Aporrea among five portals that were offline after DDoS attacks
  • the report records 15 digital-rights cases in May 2023

Evidence limits

Independent organizational synthesis but aggregate wording: it supplies no Aporrea-specific date, downtime, telemetry or actor attribution.

Relevance to this case

Independent corroboration that Aporrea experienced an availability effect after a reported DDoS.