Communications · Private · elcambur.com.ve
Between January 30 and February 3, 2017, the Venezuelan online news portal El Cambur suffered repeated and massive attacks on its main servers, which took its website offline for about two days. According to its administrator, Rodolfo Rico, who spoke with IPYS Venezuela, this was the third time the site had been attacked in this manner, and on this occasion, the attack damaged the proxy system that generated the images linked to posts on its official Twitter account for several weeks. IPYS Venezuela recorded it as one of five cyberattacks in 2017 that limited access to or compromised the security of web platforms in Venezuela, as part of a wave of attacks against critical media outlets attributed by press organizations to alleged pro-government actors. The administrator was unable to determine the origin of the attacking IP addresses, as they were masked using a VPN.