US authorities indict two Sudanese who run the hacker group Anonymous Sudan for allegedly conducting more than 35,000 DDoS attacks

Two Sudanese nationals have been indicted for allegedly carrying out more than 35,000 DDoS attacks on hospitals, government agencies, infrastructure facilities, and other targets. The two men were involved in the operation and management of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan.

Central District of California | Two Sudanese Nationals Indicted for Alleged Role in Anonymous Sudan Cyberattacks on Hospitals, Government Facilities, and Other Critical Infrastructure in Los Angeles and Around the World | United States Department of Justice

US charges Sudanese man with running huge cyberattack-for-hire gang - The Washington Post

Two accused of DDoSing some of the world's biggest tech companies
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The two brothers, Ahmed Salah Yousif Omar (22) and Alaa Salah Yousif Omar (27), were indicted. They are believed to have been the operators of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan. However, they had no organizational ties to the well-known hacker group Anonymous, and were rather characterized by their Sudanese nationalist ideology.

The Anonymous Sudan Telegram channel had 80,000 users and carried out DDoS attacks against a number of companies, including a Los Angeles hospital, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, Microsoft, OpenAI, Netflix, and PayPal.

The two defendants boasted about the results of the DDoS attacks on their Telegram channels. According to the prosecution's investigation, more than 35,000 attacks using DDoS tools used by Anonymous Sudan were confirmed between January 2023 and March 2024. For example, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was attacked for eight hours, and it was reported that it was unable to accept patients and had to transfer them to other hospitals.

In addition, it seems that they have offered DDoS tools to paid subscription users for '$100 (about 15,000 yen) per day, $600 (about 90,000 yen) per week, and $17 million (about 250,000 yen) per month.'

Although they were indicted, the two are not in the United States and were arrested and detained outside the United States in March 2024. It is not clear in which country they are being detained or whether they are scheduled to be extradited to the United States in the future.