Other · Non-profit · vendata.org
On May 8, 2018, the website of the civil society organization Vendata (vendata.org)—an open data platform created by the Venezuelan Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) and Transparencia Venezuela, the Venezuelan chapter of Transparency International—was the target of a cyberattack. According to error logs, the attack originated from multiple compromised computers that affected vendata.org and the Blue Host server where the data was hosted. Espacio Público and IPYS described it as a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which involves sending thousands of simultaneous connection requests to the same IP address to crash the website, forcing administrators to block and shut down the server. Those responsible were not identified. The incident occurred amid government smear campaigns against Transparencia Venezuela, which the Presidency has labeled a “subversive organization” funded by the U.S.
