A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has charged two Sudanese nationals Oct. 16 with operating and controlling an online cybercriminal group allegedly responsible for thousands of attacks against critical infrastructure, corporate networks, hospitals, and government agencies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.
In March, authorities in Los Angeles and the FBI disabled the powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool that the group, Anonymous Sudan, was using in the attacks.
The DDoS tool was also sold to other criminal groups, according to authorities.
Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, were both charged with one count of conspiracy to damage protected computers. Ahmed Salah was also charged with three counts of damaging protected computers….