Hondurasgate Survives 40,000 Cyber Attacks After Exposing JOH Power Struggle

The investigative portal Hondurasgate has reported a formidable cyber offensive following the dissemination of provocative audio recordings pertaining to the case of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. According to the editorial board, this sudden surge in adversarial activity was not merely a technical anomaly, but a calculated endeavor to paralyze the website and stifle the distribution of politically resonant materials.

Data from Hondurasgate reveals that on May 7, the portal’s defensive ramparts intercepted 39,618 intrusion attempts within a twenty-four-hour window. The zenith of this onslaught occurred within a single hour, during which 22,620 malicious requests were documented. The editorial team contends that the assault commenced shortly after the release of the third installment of the leaks and persisted for nine and a half hours. Despite the intensity of the attack, the site remained operational, the audio recordings remained intact, and user credentials were not compromised.

Hondurasgate attributes the incident to its series of exposés involving the United States and Israel. The portal notes that the provenance of the suspicious traffic pointed toward nodes within these two jurisdictions. In the United States, the centers of activity were reportedly situated in Los Angeles, Buffalo, Des Moines, Beltsville, Ashburn, Washington D.C., Dallas, and Boydton.

The infrastructure utilized in the assault allegedly included DIGI VPS, HostPapa, Microsoft Azure, Cogent Communications, Oracle Cloud, and Unmanaged LTD. Regarding Israel, Hondurasgate identified Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beersheba, and the northern corridor, though specific metrics were withheld to safeguard the integrity of their defensive systems.

The authors of the report maintain that the offensive transcended a conventional DDoS attack. Instead, the adversaries engaged in sophisticated vulnerability probing, seeking legacy CMS installers, exposed configuration files, obsolete administrative panels, and remnants of source code repositories or build tools. The editorial board asserts that none of these inquiries yielded a successful exploit.

Public fascination with Hondurasgate was ignited by audio recordings released since late April. The portal claims these recordings were authenticated via Phonexia forensic analysis, with file hashes published transparently for public verification. The materials allegedly implicate figures such as Juan Orlando Hernández, Cossette López Osorio, Roger Stone, the Trump family, prominent American financiers, and the Israeli Prime Minister.

The crux of the leaks, according to Hondurasgate, concerns the purported coordination of Hernández’s political resurgence, the exertion of pressure on electoral institutions, and other clandestine activities within Honduras. The editorial team declared that the cyberattack has failed to alter their publication schedule. Following the release of telemetry data on social media, reports of the nearly 40,000 attempted breaches have been widely amplified by independent media outlets and prominent journalists.