Venezuelan platforms have received more than 30 million cyber attacks per minute without a break since July 28 until this weekend, said the Vice President for Science, Technology, Education and Health, Gabriela Jiménez, this Monday at the National and State Security Council.
Presenting a detailed report on the ongoing cyberattacks the country has received since the presidential elections, the Vice President of Education, Health, Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, stated that 25 institutions have been mostly affected by cyberattacks and 40 are under investigation.
“Among the cyber attacks, we can see that 65% were of the denial of service type, affecting the servers of state institutions and international links,” he specified and explained that this affects the servers, while 17% of the attacks have to do with the theft of information associated with emails with malicious software, route hijacking, DNS expansion and misconfiguration of state pages and portals, he pointed out.
He added that over the weekend, Cantv’s IP addresses were hijacked to cause the servers to crash.
All platforms have been attacked
“All state platforms have been attacked in multiple ways,” said the head of Science and Technology when presenting the Report, who highlighted among the affected systems the National Income System (SNI) which received 4 million attacks per hour.
During his speech, he explained that renowned international cybersecurity platforms such as Netscout report that the Venezuelan state has been one of the most affected countries during cyberattacks between July and August. These events are recorded on international cybersecurity platforms such as NETSCOUT and Kaspersky, which showed an increase in data traffic to Venezuela the day after the elections, which has led Venezuela to be the most attacked country in Latin America between July and August.
In this regard, he stressed that the volume, level of sophistication, incidence and duration of the attacks demonstrate a great technological and financial capacity installed.
Most cyber attacks come from the United States
Regarding the origin of the attacks, he said that 98% come from farm services with desktop computers and less than 2% from mobile technology platforms.
Jiménez also stated in his report that, when analyzing the source of these attacks against platforms in Venezuela, the first country from which they were launched was the United States.
“In addition to these attacks, this has been simultaneously linked to the use of social networks where they begin to generate matrices of media cyber attacks,” he said, adding that although “90% of the attacks have not been carried out, they nevertheless generate matrices of fear,” highlighting that these affect the psyche of Venezuelans through social networks and generate a negative matrix against the country.
For all the above, at the end of the report it was recommended the creation of a National Council Cyber Security to strengthen technological platforms.
