On April 7, hackers gained administrative entry to the community administration system of Fibex Telecom, a Venezuelan web supplier with roughly 390,000 energetic prospects, in accordance with cybersecurity agency VECERT Analyzer. The attacker, recognized as “x00x01x01,” revealed proof of his entry on X, together with screenshots and usernames of panels that management the corporate’s fiber optic infrastructure.
The alleged hacker additionally claims to have posted a video to X that exhibits: managed the supplier’s providersincluded Fibex usernames as a part of the take a look at.
The hacker connected a message to the publication that mixes accusations and threats: “Fibex Telecom is passing shopper visitors by means of Chinese language units on Cantv (dpi). Ought to I flip all the things off?
With this phrase, the attackers declare that Fibex routes customers’ looking by means of gear put in at Venezuela’s state-run telecommunications firm, Cantv, and is topic to deep packet inspection (DPI), a expertise that enables the content material monitoring and evaluation of web visitors.
An attacker who positive factors management of the Fibex administration panel claims to have entry to its infrastructure chain. A whole lot of hundreds of customers might be left with out web service.
A Venezuelan information account reported that Fibex Telecom issued the next assertion: Assured regular operation CriptoNoticias couldn’t confirm that assertion, however claimed its platform had “the most effective safety protocols.”
What grants entry to the compromised panel?
The system compromised in Fibex is SmartOLT, a fiber optic infrastructure administration panel that enables distant administration of kit that delivers web alerts to finish customers. Anybody who accesses that panel will Management who’s logged in and authenticate or disconnect unitschange community configuration, and entry node diagnostic information.
Merely put, entry to the panel is identical as having a key to the management room of the whole community. This entry permits attackers to selectively or wholesale disrupt providers with out requiring bodily intervention into the infrastructure.
In response to VECERT, the affected nodes correspond to the next areas: Pastora, La Victoria, Tiplo, San Juan de los Moros, Los Samanesutilizing gear from producers Huawei and ZTE.
The evaluation agency’s report additionally highlights that hackers have the flexibility to remotely disconnect customers, change machine authentication, entry community diagnostics, and acquire location information and the operational standing of important nodes.
Digital ecosystem uncovered to repeated assaults
Fivex Telecom Incident This isn’t an remoted case in Venezuela’s digital ecosystem. As reported by CriptoNoticias, VECERT Analyzer warned on March 16 of a knowledge breach involving greater than 56,000 BT Journey Venezuela prospects. This was achieved by an attacker generally known as ‘malconguerra2’, the identical individual chargeable for hacking Venezuelan fintech firm Cashea in February 2026, which compromised roughly 46.5 GB of database and over 79 million information.
In such instances Added different info reported by CriptoNoticias in March: Hacker “GordonFreeman” leaked information from Yummy Rides and Rapikom, over $300,000 USDC from Kontigo in January, and assault on Digitel by the MedusaBlog group in February 2024, which included a ransom demand of $5 million in Bitcoin.
The sample that emerges is that of a digital ecosystem that’s repeatedly uncovered to menace actors working with quite a lot of goals, from theft of private and monetary information to accessing important communications infrastructure. In current instances, no public statements have been made by the affected firms earlier than the knowledge was made public by outdoors safety researchers.
