Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘Anon Sudan’ Takedown
Summary: The U.S. government announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers, Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, accused of running Anonymous Sudan, a DDoS-for-hire operation active since at least January 2023 that sold attacks for as little as $150 a day or $700 a week. The FBI said the group's high-profile attacks served as advertising for the service, which struck Microsoft cloud services in June 2023, PayPal, Twitter/X, OpenAI, the FBI and State Department websites, Cedars-Sinai Hospital in February 2024, and Kenya's internet infrastructure in September 2023.
Bottom line: Prosecutors say Ahmed Salah could face life in prison for attacks that sought to kill people, including strikes on the APIs behind Israel's rocket red-alert apps during the October 7, 2023 attacks and a Cedars-Sinai assault that forced emergency services and patients to be redirected to other hospitals.
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