The Binary Guardians attack the Bolivarian Army’s website during the campaign on August 7, 2017
On August 7, 2017, the Army was named by EFE/BBC Mundo, El Pitazo, IT Projects, and Freedom House as one of the military sites targeted by The Binary Guardians. There is no public evidence of data exfiltration or compromise of internal military networks.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
The Bolivarian Army (ejercito.mil.ve) was identified by EFE, the BBC, and El Pitazo as having been affected by the campaign, with the 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 have compromised the Bolivarian Army’s (EB) public portal 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.