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In the United States, the harshest accusations have been brought against the organizers of the hacker group.
US federal prosecutors have charged two brothers from Sudan with organizing one of the most active groups in contracted cyberattacks. The men are charged with more than 35,000 DDoS attacks per year, including attacks on a hospital in the United States and key American corporations. If found guilty, the brothers face life imprisonment.
According to the indictment, Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer and Alaa Salah Yusuf Omer ran the Anonymous Sudan group, which has attacked Microsoft, OpenAI, PayPal and a number of other sites since January 2023. The organization claimed a nationalist motive and sold DDoS attack services for up to $600. According to the prosecutor's office, the brothers acted with the support of three accomplices.
The group also suspended Israel's Red Alert alert system on October 7, 2023, following the outbreak of the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Also in a Telegram channel with 80,000 subscribers, Anonymous Sudan expressed solidarity with the Palestinians.
Ahmed Omer was the chief administrator of Anonymous Sudan and is believed to be 21 or 22 years old. Both brothers have a good education. Prosecutors confirmed that the suspects were arrested abroad in March and have been in custody ever since, but details about the country of detention and the possibility of extradition to the United States were not disclosed.
During the investigation, computer equipment and programs used in the attacks were seized, and no new attacks have been recorded from this network since the arrest. The group used sophisticated techniques, including deceptive manipulation of cloud services. The use of powerful networks to amplify traffic made it possible to pass off attacks as legitimate requests, which made detection much more difficult.
Prosecutors stressed that, unlike most DDoS attacks, Anonymous Sudan's actions posed a threat to people's lives. As a result of the attack on the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, access to the patient portal was disrupted, which led to the redirection of ambulances to other hospitals.
The group used attacks on large companies to advertise their services in the criminal market. At the same time, the brothers' high technical skills allowed them to successfully resist blocking attempts. Collaboration between private companies and U.S. authorities has played a key role in investigating and uncovering hackers' connections through GitHub accounts and emails.
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US federal prosecutors have charged two brothers from Sudan with organizing one of the most active groups in contracted cyberattacks. The men are charged with more than 35,000 DDoS attacks per year, including attacks on a hospital in the United States and key American corporations. If found guilty, the brothers face life imprisonment.
According to the indictment, Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer and Alaa Salah Yusuf Omer ran the Anonymous Sudan group, which has attacked Microsoft, OpenAI, PayPal and a number of other sites since January 2023. The organization claimed a nationalist motive and sold DDoS attack services for up to $600. According to the prosecutor's office, the brothers acted with the support of three accomplices.
The group also suspended Israel's Red Alert alert system on October 7, 2023, following the outbreak of the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Also in a Telegram channel with 80,000 subscribers, Anonymous Sudan expressed solidarity with the Palestinians.
Ahmed Omer was the chief administrator of Anonymous Sudan and is believed to be 21 or 22 years old. Both brothers have a good education. Prosecutors confirmed that the suspects were arrested abroad in March and have been in custody ever since, but details about the country of detention and the possibility of extradition to the United States were not disclosed.
During the investigation, computer equipment and programs used in the attacks were seized, and no new attacks have been recorded from this network since the arrest. The group used sophisticated techniques, including deceptive manipulation of cloud services. The use of powerful networks to amplify traffic made it possible to pass off attacks as legitimate requests, which made detection much more difficult.
Prosecutors stressed that, unlike most DDoS attacks, Anonymous Sudan's actions posed a threat to people's lives. As a result of the attack on the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, access to the patient portal was disrupted, which led to the redirection of ambulances to other hospitals.
The group used attacks on large companies to advertise their services in the criminal market. At the same time, the brothers' high technical skills allowed them to successfully resist blocking attempts. Collaboration between private companies and U.S. authorities has played a key role in investigating and uncovering hackers' connections through GitHub accounts and emails.
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