The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan has targeted over forty organisations supporting Israel’s infrastructure, including Mossad and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a politically motivated attack.
Several critical government services for Israeli citizens were claimed, including the official government website of Israel, the Israeli Police, and the Israel Broadcasting Corporation. Anonymous Sudan’s ultimate goal is to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
The group favour Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as their weapon of choice, and they have been known to work with fellow pro-Russian hacker gang KillNet in the past against common victims.
Security experts have long suspected that Anonymous Sudan may ultimately be a front for Russian-backed hackers. Last month, the two gangs coordinated their cyber power to target several Australian schools as payback for supporting Ukraine.
Anonymous Sudan has also claimed responsibility for successful Valentine’s Day attacks targeting Sweden as retaliation for the January burning of a Koran during a public protest in Stockholm. The group has warned its 27,000 plus Telegram subscribers to ignore a fake AnonymousSudan01 account which popped up on Twitter in the wake of the Wednesday’s attacks.
According to the latest analysis by cybersecurity firm Radware, Israel proves to be the most targeted nation among pro-religious hacktivist groups in the past three months alone. Wednesday’s targeted campaign by Anonymous Sudan, titled FK Israel, mimics fellow pro-Russian hacker gang KillNet, who last week titled a cyber campaign against the North American Alliance as FK NATO.
Cybernews confirmed that Netanyahu’s personal site was down Wednesday afternoon and returning a 509 error message “bandwidth limit exceeded.” Many other website addresses of organizations claimed in the attacks were still loading when Cybernews checked them by late day.
The attacks by Anonymous Sudan began in the early morning hours on Wednesday, and the politically motivated gang was able to take down the website of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Security Agency, and the nation’s elite counter-intelligence and special operations agency known as the Mossad.
Two emergency alert services that warn citizens of incoming rocket attacks were also targeted.
