People passing by the Metro payment machines in Caracas. Photo: IG/@rvaraguayan.
The Minister for Transport, Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, condemned the cyber attacks against Conviasa airline’s website and the payment processing systems for metro transit companies of several cities in the country. The cyber attacks were committed by the “hacktivist” group Anonymous.
They were reported on Sunday. August 11, by Velásquez Araguayán on his Instagram account, where he explained that in the case of Conviasa, Venezuelan experts managed to neutralize the electronic sabotage thanks to their technical teams.
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Velásquez Araguayán continued, “Similarly, against the Fare Collection System in the Caracas, Valencia, Los Teques, Maracaibo, IFE Metros and the Metrobús system, which caused a temporal collapse in the service, we have acted to protect all the information, as a guarantee for our users and to resume the pre-paid card system.”
Velásquez Araguayán added, “…faced with the declaration of a cyber war against Venezuela by the lackeys of imperialism, we stand up and confront any attack against our country! They will not succeed!”
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Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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