The Binary Guardians Affects the National Anti-Drug Fund (FONA) Website
On August 7, 2017, El Pitazo included FONA on its list of at least 25 websites that were victims of the attack, and IT Projects kept the domain FONA.GOB.VE on its partial list of affected websites. No official source or direct archived screenshot of the site was found, so this entry is maintained as partially verified.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
FONA/fona.gob.ve was listed in The Binary Guardians campaign. The evidence is based on the campaign list, with no direct confirmation from the victim, data exposure, or internal compromise.
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
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 have compromised the public portal of the National Anti-Drug Fund (FONA) 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.