The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday indicted two Sudanese nationals accused of running the “Anonymous Sudan” hacking group that launched tens of

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. The documents allege that these hacks aimed to cause serious financial and technical harm to government entities and companies and even physical harm in some cases.

The DoJ has announced charges against Anonymous Sudan members and the disruption of their DDoS attack service.

The two brothers were allegedly behind Anonymous Sudan, a major perpetrator of DDoS attacks that targeted companies including Microsoft, OpenAI and Yahoo.

Sudanese brothers charged for 35,000 DDoS attacks targeting Microsoft, hospitals, and global networks in 2023.