The Binary Guardians lists the CIARA domain among the websites affected by the August 7, 2017, campaign
IT Projects included ciara.gov.ve on its partial list of domains affected by The Binary Guardians’ campaign on August 7, 2017. No independent corroboration by name, official confirmation, or direct archived screenshot of the site was found; therefore, it is recorded as partially verified.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
CIARA/ciara.gov.ve was listed by IT Projects as affected in The Binary Guardians campaign. The evidence is based on a single source or campaign list, with no direct confirmation from the victim or data exposure.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement or dns redirection
- Confidence
- Medium
Public information links the target to the campaign to deface and redirect The Binary Guardians’ website. No source confirms a data breach or a compromise of the internal system 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 or public portal outage in a public campaign; no confirmed data exposure, internal compromise, or prolonged service outage for the individual target.
Timeline
The Binary Guardians have compromised the public portal of the Foundation for Training and Innovation to Support the Agrarian Revolution (CIARA) 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.