Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE)
Government cne.gob.ve
- Incidents
- 3
- High impact
- 2
- First seen
- Jul 31, 2017
- Latest seen
- Jul 28, 2024
Linked incidents
DDoS-type cyberattack against the National Electoral Council (CNE) websites during the June 28 presidential election
Team Cymru observed a traffic spike consistent with a DDoS attack against the IP address hosting the CNE portals (SAFE/SICOFPE) for approximately 34 minutes on July 28, 2024. The analysis does not support the alleged hacking of the vote count or the official attribution to North Macedonia; the confirmed impact is the unavailability of the portals.
The Binary Guardians defaced the National Electoral Council (CNE) website during the August 7, 2017, campaign
On August 7, 2017, The Binary Guardians once again targeted the National Electoral Council’s website as part of a defacement and DNS redirection campaign against .ve domains. Public sources indicate that the CNE website displayed a pamphlet supporting Operation David and a video of *The Great Dictator*; a CNE spokesperson confirmed to BBC Mundo that the site had been hacked and was restored shortly after noon. There is no public evidence of data exfiltration.
The Binary Guardians defaced the CNE’s website and took over its Twitter account following the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election (July 2017)
On July 31, 2017, in the early hours following the July 30 election for the National Constituent Assembly, the hacktivist group The Binary Guardians defaced the website of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) (www.cne.gov.ve), which remained inaccessible for several hours, displaying the word “hacked,” the group’s account, and messages denouncing alleged electoral fraud (“What do you think—that we don’t know you committed fraud?”, “Venezuela is going to burn,” “Our fight is digital. You block the streets, and we’ll block the networks”). The group also took control of the CNE’s Twitter account, from which—according to reports—it posted that the approximately 8 million reported votes were “a complete lie” and “total fraud,” claiming that the actual number of votes did not exceed 2 million. CNE President Tibisay Lucena confirmed the attack by “criminal groups” and that service had been restored. The same campaign affected other government websites (VTV, the Presidency, among others) and intensified in August 2017.