Gabriela Jiménez: 106 State institutions have received cyberattacks in recent days

Published at: 15/08/2024 09:13 AM

After the meeting of the National Defense Council and the Council of State, led last Monday by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, computer attacks against the Venezuelan State's cyber systems increased, the minister of science and technology, Gabriela Jiménez, reported.

In this regard, he explained that since July 38 and to date, the technological infrastructure of 106 institutions and media in the country has been attacked.

In this regard, during his participation in the podcast “Here and Now” he indicated that attacks are differentiated so that they affect institutions, and thus steal information from the Republic.

“Information has been stolen from some portals. Recently, we were seeing that the CONVIASA payroll was published. When they publish payrolls of users, soldiers, officials, what they want is to generate terror, terrorism, uncertainty,” he stressed.

In addition, the vice-president of Science, Technology, Education and Health, explained that most of these attacks come from the United States, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and, recently, France joined.

“It is essential that we generate a technological infrastructure that guarantees the well-being of the People, the confidentiality of data. There are digital rights of Venezuelans that we have to protect. This uncertainty generated by the fascist opposition has to do with an attempted technological cybernetic coup d'etat,” he stressed.

In addition, he pointed out that behind these attacks there is a great investment to “promote cyber war” against Venezuela.

He said that our country has suffered different types of attacks, including the DNS, in order to collapse the servers of the Venezuelan State, as happened with the web portal of the National Electoral Council (CNE) on July 28.

Mazo News Team