Health care · Government · heroesdesaludve.info
Between late March and late April 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opposition platform Héroes de la Salud (heroesdesaludve.info)—created by Juan Guaidó’s interim government to provide financial aid to healthcare workers—was the target of a state-sponsored phishing campaign. CANTV, the main state-owned internet provider, manipulated DNS responses to redirect its users from the legitimate site to a malicious clone (heroesdesaludve.co) that captured national ID numbers, addresses, email addresses, places of work, and job titles, as well as images of official documents. The case was documented by VEsinfiltro, Efecto Cocuyo, and Freedom House.