Hacking group with ties to Africa may be a Russian proxy
A banner depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin in front of Russian embassy in Riga, Lativa on 9 March 2022. Gints Ivuskansresponsible for a series of outages at Microsoft earlier this month had spent the previous months attacking targets in Israel, Sweden and other nations, part of an expanding campaign that some cybersecurity researchers have tied to Russia.
A representative for Anonymous Sudan denied that the group was acting on Russia’s behalf but said their interests were aligned. Anonymous Sudan goes after “everything that is hostile to Islam and all countries that are hostile to Islam are hostile to Russia”, the representative wrote, as part of an online conversation.
Microsoft said the group “appears to be focused on disruption and publicity”.
Anonymous Sudan emerged in February with a campaign against Sweden. The digital onslaught disrupted online programming at Sweden’s national public broadcaster and knocked out the websites of the airline SAS, state-owned power company Vattenfall and defence firm Saab.
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