U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks
U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks
17 October 2024
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft's services in June 2023.
The attacks, which were facilitated by Anonymous Sudan's "powerful DDoS tool," singled out critical infrastructure, corporate networks,