The national government made official the creation of a Strengthening Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Investigation (ForCIC) program. As detailed, the purpose of the measure is to prevent and investigate computer crimes, among which are fraudthe distribution of child abuse material and attacks against public safetyamong others.
The program also seeks to form a alliance between the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires through the Unit 24/7 to strengthen the prevention and investigation of this type of crimes. The Government assured that the measure “does not imply any budgetary expenditure“.
The Government created a program to combat cybercrime
The measure was approved by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich and it was made official in Resolution 19/2025 that was published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette. In the official text, the administration analyzed that “the constant increase in cybercrimes and the number of people affected by them generates the need to strengthen and articulate coordinated prevention and research mechanisms by federal police and security forces.
It is worth remembering that two weeks ago the official Mi Argentina site and the SUBE Card application were hacked after suffering a cyber attack. After this, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology charged against “a group of deputies and senators of the National Congress who chose to play high politics instead of guaranteeing the funds allocated to the fight against these crimes” and explained the need to “an urgent investment to strengthen infrastructure and computer security“.
In detail, the program will seek to increase the capacity of prevention, detection, analysis, response and investigation of cyber incidents and cybercrime; strengthen investigative activities in specific areas of computer crimes dependent on federal police and security forces; elaborate specific metrics about the situation; elaborate Specific metrics for cyber-dependent and cyber-assisted crimes; and Articulate and channel, through the 24/7 Unit, actions with the Provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to strengthen cybersecurity and investigate cybercrime.
In this way, the ForCIC will aim to strengthen the Computer Security Incident Response Committee (CSIRT) to prevent, detect and analyze cyber attacks and incidents, in addition to developing a “Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan”. The program will also seek to promote the “accession of all the provinces and the City of Buenos Aires“.
On the other hand, the Government detailed that the ForCIC will be in charge of a person in charge whose review unit will be the Directorate of Cybercrime and Cyber Affairs, dependent on the Cabinet Unit of Advisors of the Ministry.
The hacking of the Mi Argentina site and the SUBE Card application
The Resolution of the Ministry of Security is no coincidence and comes almost two weeks after the libertarian administration suffered a hacking of the Mi Argentina site and the SUBE Card application. The two platforms were attacked and the situation generated concern among the authorities, given the magnitude of data of millions of citizens that the platform contains.
The attack was confirmed by the Secretariat of Innovation, Science and Technology. Although users could access the argentina.gob.ar website, most of its sections were inaccessible for a time. Operation became normal as the hours passed.
The link “about this site“was one of the last where the message could be seen”hacked by h4xx0r1337 $gov.eth ”, until then the same text that was visible in the rest of the sections that had been left without content appeared.
For its part, on the Mi Argentina website, “503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle this request“, it was read next to a completely white screen. This basically means that There is no server available to handle a request.
On the affected website, in addition, There were problems entering the links of Mi Argentina and the Sube Cardor in the intended to obtain or renew the DNI and passportand to manage the criminal record certificate. The same problems were present in most of the spaces intended for “Documentation“, “Transit and Transportation” and “Work and Employment“, and the links in the section “More topics”.
The group or individual responsible for the cyber attack used the pseudonym “h4xx0r1337″, a signature they left in several places on the website. Also, he mentioned the account @gov.eth, which could demonstrate a link between the two in recent cyberattacks.
Source: Ambito
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