The Binary Guardians Compromised the CICPC Portal During the August 7, 2017, Campaign
On August 7, 2017, CICPC (the Venezuelan Criminal Investigation Police) was named by EFE, BBC Mundo, El Pitazo, IT Projects, and Freedom House as one of the organizations targeted by The Binary Guardians. There is no public evidence of data exfiltration or compromise of internal police systems.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
CICPC/cicpc.gob.ve was identified by EFE/BBC/El Pitazo as a target of the campaign, with an impact limited to the integrity and availability of its public website.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement or dns redirection
- Confidence
- High
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
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Limited
- 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 Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC) 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.