Anonymous Sudan isn't any more: Two alleged operators named, charged

Hacktivist gang Anonymous Sudan appears to have lost its anonymity after the US Attorney's Office on Wednesday unsealed an indictment identifying two of its alleged operators. The indictment [PDF] named Sudanese nationals Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer as members of Anonymous Sudan. An accompanying …

[Mockup1974]

>Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer

Interesting how they have almost the same name. Are they brothers with uncreative parents or are there only a dozen Arabic names and it's just a coincidence?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pwaf! The linked Washington Post notes that "Both brothers are highly educated" and "were highly skilled" so I doubt their parents were terminally unimaginative -- though they seemed to like first names starting in "A"; like Arthur (the Fonz) and Albert (the Einstein).

The web suggests that Alaa means blessed with excellence, and could be short for Aladdin (sane or not), and Ahmed (Ahmad, Ahmet) means highly praised, with a loose connection to Muhammad. So, aspirational names, for parents who'd like their kids to be successful.

They were successful alright, but in crime ... for a time! Good riddance.

[Guy de Loimbard]

Have they been apprehended or charged in absentia?

Can't imagine known members of Anonymous Sudan would be that keen to strut about in public?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Per the Washington Post, the two accused were arrested in March" (RTFA? ... or maybe it was updated ... no sweat!)

[Anonymous Coward]

Archive of our own DDoS'd

Wasn't it Anonymous Sudan who DDoS'd the fan fiction site "Archive Of Our Own" until they got behind Cloudflare in July 2023?

(If they wanted to stop stuff being written, it didn't work very well. See "The M3GAN Files" for a small example: the writer expanded it a lot while waiting for the site to get back online apparently)

Surprised they really were Sudanese not just Russians pretending to be from Sudan though