The Binary Guardians Compromised the Caracas Government Website During the Campaign on August 7, 2017
On August 7, 2017, El Pitazo listed the Caracas government among the websites affected by the attack, and IT Projects included the domain caracas.gob.ve on its partial list. No direct confirmation was found from the mayor’s office, nor was a screenshot on file, so this is recorded as a partially verified disruption of the public website.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
The Caracas Government/caracas.gob.ve website was listed in the August 7, 2017, defacement/redirection campaign on The Binary Guardians website. The evidence is based on the campaign list, with no direct confirmation from the victim or exposure of data.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement or dns redirection
- Confidence
- Medium
Public Cobertura links the target to “The Binary Guardians” campaign involving website defacement and redirects. No source confirms data theft or internal system compromise in the case of this specific target.
Severity assessment
Low- Functional impact
- Minimal
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- None
- Recoverability
- Regular
Website defacement/redirection in a public campaign; no confirmed data exposure, internal compromise, or prolonged service outage for the individual target.
Timeline
The Binary Guardians has compromised the public portal of the Mayor's Office of the Bolivarian Libertador Municipality of Caracas as part of a defacement/redirect campaign targeting .ve domains.
The group spreads the message "Our struggle is digital" and expresses support for Operation David; sources at Reuters/IBTimes indicate that it was not part of the military operation.
Media outlets and technical sources publish lists of affected sites, with varying scopes: at least 25, more than 30, and about 40 websites.