Venezuelan former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia (left) and far-right politician María Corina Machado (right) during their electoral campaign. File photo.
A video is circulating on social media that reveals that Venezuelan far-right politician María Corina Machado paid $50,000 to hackers to sabotage the transmission system of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the CANTV network during the vote counting of the presidential elections of July 28, 2024.
According to a video posted on TikTok by the user @Carlos_Chavez1995, the cyberattack let Machado make the CNE system dysfunctional for three hours, thus being able to display the infamous fake “voting records” that declared Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner.
In the video, Chávez explains that it was an intervention with a T2 system, which collapsed the network with many bots making simultaneous calls to CANTV, as already explained by the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez.
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A few days after the presidential elections, Vice President Rodríguez reported an unprecedented massive cyberattack on the CNE system as well as the satellite communication system of the country, with “30 million attacks per minute, or 500,000 attacks per second,” which severely impacted the transmission of CNE data.
On that occasion, Attorney General Tarek William Saab opened an investigation to identify those responsible for the cyberattack. “Fortunately, the cyberattack was unsuccessful, but it significantly slowed down the counting process and the announcement of the results. The attackers had wanted to tamper with the records,” Saab declared at that time.
For his part, the hacker ASTRA, a Chilean national, publicly admitted to participating in the hacking of the CNE system during the vote-counting process.
(RedRadioVE) by Milena Bravo
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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