Venezuela's Government Appears To be Trying To Hack Activists With Phishing Pages (vice.com)

Hackers allegedly working for the embattled Venezuelan government tried to trick activists into giving away their passwords to popular services such as Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and others, according to security researchers. From a report: Last week, the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido called for citizens to volunteer with the goal of helping international humanitarian organizations deliver aid into the country. President Nicolas Maduro is refusing to accept aid and has erected blocks across a border bridge with Colombia with the military's help. The volunteer efforts were organized around the website voluntariosxvenezuela.com. A week later, on February 11 someone registered an almost identical domain, voluntariosvenezuela[.]com. And on Wednesday, users in Venezuela who were trying to visit the original and official VoluntariosxVenezuela website were redirected to the newer one, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as Venezuelan users on Twitter.

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Re:Blocking Humanitarian Aid

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venezuelan here. while conspiracy theories are great, the real reason Maduro doesn't want the aid it's because he would implicitly admit his government has failed and people are dying and fleeing the country. it's as easy as that.

his regime along with chavez has been in power for 20 years. and now they blame the US sanctions (that have been for less than 2 years) for all the troubles.