The US Department of Justice filed an indictment against two Sudanese brothers, on several charges, including allegations that they participated in cyberattacks that led to the disruption of Israeli alarm systems during Operation “Al-Aqsa floodOn October 7 of last year, according to American and Israeli press reports.
Reports state that the two brothers Ahmed (22 years old) and Alaa Youssef Omar (27 years old) are accused of running a group called “Anonymous Sudan,” which the Ministry of Justice classifies as among the most dangerous electronic groups in terms of attacks in the world, according to reports including the American New York Times and “ Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth, and Sudanese websites.
Indictment
The US Attorney General submitted to the court an indictment against the defendants, including the management of the “Anonymous Sudan hacker” group and launching an electronic attack that caused the disruption of the alarm systems and Iron Dome during the Palestinian resistance attack in Gaza Strip Against Israel on October 7.
The accusation also included a claim of disabling the Home Front and Emergency applications between the 7th and 9th of October in conjunction with the attack, in addition to the accusation of endangering the lives of thousands of settlers due to disabling the alarm systems, according to Israeli press sources.
According to the indictment, the attack was carried out within minutes of the infiltration by Islamic Resistance Movement fighters (agitation) to the border, which prevented warnings of rocket launches and the infiltration of resistance elements into the settlements, according to the same source.
For its part, the New York Times states in a report that the young Sudanese man, Ahmed Omar, launched an attack while he was sitting in front of a computer at dawn on October 7, 2023, while Hamas fighters had just penetrated the Israeli border.
The newspaper states that the electronic attack on the early warning systems used in Israel to alert citizens to danger led to the systems being briefly disabled, preventing warnings that it said “could save lives” at the time.
She added, “This was the case brought against Ahmed and his brother Alaa Omar, in a criminal indictment that was revealed in California this week,” while quoting the US Attorney for the Central District of California, speaking in a call with journalists, saying, “This electronic group was the most dangerous of all.” “Distributed denial of service attacks in the world.”
The newspaper states that the two brothers are accused of running a group called “Anonymous Sudan,” which during the year it was founded, launched up to 35,000 electronic attacks known as distributed denial-of-service attacks.
The attacks caused the disruption of the websites of government agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Justice, and news agencies, such as the Washington Post and CNN, in addition to attacks that affected other countries, according to what the newspaper quoted from the indictment.
The newspaper refers to a previous incident in which the two brothers shut down the vital computer systems of a hospital in Los Angeles, causing emergency services for patients to be temporarily diverted to other hospitals, according to the indictment.
The newspaper says that the two brothers who were arrested and detained (in an unspecified country) at that time said that the attack was in response to Israel’s bombing of hospitals in Gaza, “Bomb our hospitals in Gaza,” and they wrote on the Telegram application, “We will close your hospitals too, an eye for an eye.” .