{"id":182802,"date":"2024-10-18T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-two-sudanese-nationals-charged-in-u-s-cyber-attack-operation\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:00:21","slug":"sudan-two-sudanese-nationals-charged-in-u-s-cyber-attack-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-two-sudanese-nationals-charged-in-u-s-cyber-attack-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Two Sudanese Nationals Charged in U.S. Cyber-Attack Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Los Angeles \u2014 <em>Two Sudanese citizens have been charged with leading Anonymous Sudan, a cybercriminal group behind tens of thousands of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks exploit vulnerable networks, often for financial or political motives. An indictment unsealed yesterday by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office, Central District of California, sate these attacks targeted critical infrastructure, government agencies, and corporations worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/two-sudanese-nationals-indicted-alleged-role-anonymous-sudan-cyberattacks-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the indictment<\/a>, Ahmed Salah&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410180009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles \u2014 Two Sudanese citizens have been charged with leading Anonymous Sudan, a cybercriminal group behind tens of thousands of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks exploit vulnerable networks, often for financial or political motives. An indictment unsealed yesterday by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office, Central District of California, sate these attacks targeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7081,49771,16316,257,8556,254,4708,1613,7296,2282],"class_list":["post-182802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charged","tag-cyberattack","tag-nationals","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}