PDVSA blamed “foreign interests in complicity with stateless factors” for the cyber attack against the country’s main industry
Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) reported this Monday, December 15, that the company suffered a “cyber attack that affected its administrative system,” but its operations are maintained.
In a statement, the company indicated that the objective of the action was to stop the operation of PDVSA, however, the “operational areas were not affected” due to the action and expertise of the workers.
«Thanks to the expertise of PDVSA’s human talent, the operational areas were not affected in any way, being reduced to an attack on its administrative system. Therefore, the operational continuity of the industry is maintained through the implementation of safe protocols that allow its regular activities in the supply of products in the national market, as well as for the fulfillment of all its export commitments.
PDVSA rejected the attack and linked it to the United States government’s strategy of “taking over Venezuelan oil through force and piracy.”
In this sense, he blamed “foreign interests in complicity with stateless factors” for the cyber attack against the country’s main industry.
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In his account on X, the unionist Iván Freites posted a video and stated that since 2:00 am on Sunday, December 14, all operational and control systems in docks, production and refineries fell.
He reported that workers operate in an emergency and in extremely risky conditions.
This Monday the 15th, Freites assured that PDVSA ordered computers and laptops to be disconnected and kept the company in complete operational darkness. «Workers in uncertainty. “Everything points to an induced disconnection to avoid being detected,” wrote the Secretary of Professionals and Technicians of the FUTPV (Unitary Federation of Oil Workers of Venezuela).
On December 13, the Executive Vice President and Minister of Hydrocarbons, Delcy Rodríguez, urged workers in the oil sector to be extremely vigilant in the country’s facilities and to remain on alert for any attempt at “sabotage”, in a context marked by a US military deployment in the Caribbean that Washington justifies as an operation against drug trafficking and that Caracas considers a threat.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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