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August 20, 2024 – The Minister of Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, reports that to date 126 national technological platforms have been the victim of cyberattacks, such as the one affecting the National Electoral Council (CNE) system.
“Since July 28, we have suffered an unprecedented attack on the country’s technological platforms, unprecedented in terms of technological sophistication, scale and number,” he denounced in the “Maduro+” plan.
In addition, he said that on Thursday and Friday they tried to violate the platform of the National Admissions System of the Ministry of University Education (SNI), compromising the allocation of places for more than 360,000 high school students in the Republic.
“Similarly, attacks took place on Thursday and Friday at the Federal Government Council and the Caracas Stock Exchange. These attacks target sensitive state institutions and public and private services. They seek to affect daily life,” he declared.
Jiménez explained that the cyberattacks were planned and used important technological tools; in addition, they affected Internet services throughout the republic.
30 million attacks per minute
Likewise, he showed tables listing cyberattacks against Internet connections that were provided by US companies that provide services to the state-owned Cantv.
“The same Columbus company communicated with Cantv and told them that traffic had increased, which was concerning for them because it’s not common,” he noted.
The tech chief commented that the IP traces of the attack came from the United States, Mexico, France and Switzerland, and were carried out from bot farms. “There are thousands of them, so much so that all these international links plan to bring us 30 million attacks per minute,” he said.
He added that three companies providing international links to Cantv were affected on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. “They forged our IP links, copied links, misconfigured portals; among other things, they stole information from our portals; for example, Conviasa’s payroll was posted on social networks,” he revealed.
Free software is the solution
When President Nicolás Maduro asked “how to protect the country’s important data” from cyberattacks, Minister Jiménez commented on the need to generate our own free software platform “that will allow us to protect ourselves from these viruses.”
He announced that at least 200 professionals are currently working on this, assisted by “international cooperation”.
Finally, Jimenez reported that Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky reported that Venezuela was the most attacked country in South America in the first week of August and the last week of July.
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