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Two Sudanese brothers accused of launching a dangerous series of DDoS attacks


Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer face federal indictments for a series of targeted hacks that aimed to cause financial and physical harm to organizations, hospitals and companies across the globe.

Newly unsealed grand jury documents revealed that two Sudanese nationals allegedly attempted to launch thousands of distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks on systems across the world. Even though Anonymous Sudan claimed to be an activist group, the pair also held some companies and entity’s systems for ransom for rates as high as $1,700 per month. Ahmed claimed responsibility for the Red Alert attacks on Telegram along with similar DDoS strikes on Israeli utilities and the Jerusalem Post news website.

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