The Binary Guardians Compromised the Despegar Venezuela Portal During the August 7, 2017, Campaign
On August 7, 2017, Despegar was named by Runrun.es as one of the downed .ve websites and appears as despegar.com.ve on IT Projects’ technical list. El Pitazo listed it as Depegar.com.ve, likely due to a typo. No direct confirmation from the company was found.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
Despegar Venezuela was identified by El Pitazo/IT Projects/Runrun.es as being affected by The Binary Guardians campaign. No data exposure or internal compromise was reported.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement or dns redirection
- Confidence
- High
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 Despegar Venezuela 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.