Presunta interrupción del portal del CICPC atribuida a The Binary Guardians

What this source supports

• The Binary Guardians campaign reported on 2017-08-07
• CICPC appears in a contemporaneous target list
• At least 25 pages were reported affected

Evidence limits

The article names CICPC in a target list and describes aggregate site conditions; it does not document the condition of cicpc.gob.ve individually.

Relevance to this case

Contemporaneous independent media corroboration that CICPC was reported among campaign targets.

What this source supports

• The article lists http://www.cicpc.gob.ve/ and http://CICPC.GOB.VE
• The article describes the broader campaign as mass website defacement
• More than 30 portals were reported in the broader campaign

Evidence limits

The recovered article preserves the exact domain but provides no CICPC-specific screenshot, observed state, technique, duration, or independent technical artifact.

Relevance to this case

Technical-sector secondary source that preserves the exact CICPC domain in the campaign list.

What this source supports

• EFE names CICPC among reported affected security-body sites
• EFE observed that most listed pages were hacked or not loading in aggregate
• The report was published on 2017-08-07

Evidence limits

EFE reports an aggregate observation and does not specify which condition it observed for cicpc.gob.ve.

Relevance to this case

Contemporaneous agency report that explicitly names CICPC, with aggregate rather than target-specific verification.

What this source supports

• BBC Mundo names CICPC among reported campaign targets
• About 40 institutions were reported affected
• The article identifies CENCOEX and PNB, not CICPC, as specifically offline

Evidence limits

The article names CICPC but does not state that BBC or Reuters personally observed cicpc.gob.ve offline or altered.

Relevance to this case

Strong secondary campaign corroboration that names CICPC while distinguishing the targets specifically observed offline.

What this source supports

• Freedom House reports a coordinated campaign affecting at least 40 government websites
• Freedom House names CICPC among attacked state security bodies
• The report is a later secondary synthesis

Evidence limits

High-quality later synthesis, but not direct target telemetry and substantially dependent on prior reporting.

Relevance to this case

Later human-rights research report that explicitly names CICPC within the campaign.

What this source supports

• Maduradas says a CICPC hack was also reported
• The article was published on 2017-08-07
• The embedded posts concern CNE rather than CICPC

Evidence limits

Secondary report with a CICPC list mention; none of its three rendered embedded posts concerns CICPC.

Relevance to this case

Contemporaneous corroboration that a CICPC hack was reported, but not target-specific primary proof.

What this source supports

• The Binary Guardians named cicpc.gob.ve
• The actor account stated #DOWN
• The post was published on 2017-08-07

Evidence limits

Primary evidence of the actor account publication and its target-specific outage claim, not independent telemetry or proof of causation, duration, defacement, DNS redirection, internal access, or data impact.

Relevance to this case

The post identifies the exact CICPC domain and states that it was down during the campaign.