The Binary Guardians attacked the Venezuelan Presidency’s website during the campaign on August 7, 2017
On August 7, 2017, the website of the Presidency of the Republic was named by EFE/El Pitazo and appears as presidencia.gob.ve on IT Projects’ technical list. IBTimes reported that the presidential website had been restored later that day. There is no public evidence of data exfiltration.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
Presidencia/presidencia.gob.ve was mentioned in The Binary Guardians campaign. No source confirms a data breach 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
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 public portal of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of 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.