Today the United States Department of Justice, in conjunction with industry partners Akamai SIRT, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, DigitalOcean, Flashpoint, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, and SpyCloud — announced the indictment of 2 brothers believed to be behind Anonymous Sudan via Operation PowerOFF.
Anonymous Sudan is allegedly operated by Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27. Both individuals resided in Sudan, as their group name states.
Previously, some Cyber Threat Intelligence researchers speculated Anonymous Sudan to be state-sponsored by the Russian Federation due to the frequent regurgitation of Russian propaganda. Interesting, they are NOT state sponsored — the information they disclosed regarding themselves was indeed true. They were indeed from Sudan and were not affiliated with any government entity.
The United States Department of Justice has seized and taken down infrastructure of Anonymous Sudan which includes their tooling ("Godzilla", "Skynet", and "InfraShutdown"). They believe Anonymous Sudan to has caused approx. $10,000,000 in damage.
Throughout their brief tenure 2023 and 2024, they are believed to have launched over 35,000 DDoS attacks and targeted nearly 70 companies.
The United States Department of Justice has confirmed the individuals behind Anonymous Sudan are in custody and are being questioned by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
If convicted Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, is facing life in prison. His brother, Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, is facing 5 years in prison.
See subsequent post for official press release.
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