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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>A hacking group called Anonymous Sudan took X, formerly known as Twitter, offline in more than a dozen countries on Tuesday morning in an attempt to pressurise Elon Musk into launching his Starlink service in their country.<\/p>\n

X was down for more than two hours, with thousands of users affected. \u201cMake our message reach to Elon Musk: \u2018Open Starlink in Sudan\u2019,\u201d the hackers posted on Telegram.<\/p>\n

X is the latest victim of the gang attacking to \u201cbenefit Sudan and Islam\u201d. Over several weeks of private conversations with the group on the chat app Telegram, the BBC spoke to the hackers about their methods and motives.<\/p>\n

One member of the group, who calls himself Crush, told the BBC that Tuesday\u2019s attack flooded X\u2019s servers with huge amounts of traffic to take it offline \u2013 the same blunt and relatively unsophisticated hacking techniques for which the gang is known.<\/p>\n

The outage-tracking site Downdetector said nearly 20,000 outage reports were logged by users in the US and the UK, with a far higher number of people likely to have been affected.<\/p>\n

Another hacking group member \u2013 Hofa \u2013 said the so-called DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack was aimed at raising awareness about the civil war in Sudan which is \u201cmaking the internet very bad and it goes down quite often for us\u201d.<\/p>\n

X has not publicly acknowledged the disruption caused, and Mr Musk has not responded to questions to launch his satellite internet service in Sudan. The gang has been accused by many in the cyber-security world of being a Russian cyber-military unit in disguise and causing cyber-chaos for the Kremlin under the cover of a foreign hacktivist outfit.<\/p>\n

The theory stems from its online support for Russian President Vladimir Putin and an apparent alignment of motives with other hacking gangs in the country.<\/p>\n

But the criminal group has repeatedly denied it is Russian, and for the first time shared evidence with the BBC that it is located in Sudan. Crush, the group\u2019s main spokesperson and key member, shared his live location on the Telegram app as proof.<\/p>\n

Crush and Hofa also sent pictures of their Sudanese passports and other screenshots suggesting they are in Sudan. These things can be faked with varying degrees of difficulty, but after weeks of conversation with the BBC and cyber-security researcher Intel Cocktail, there is nothing to suggest the hackers are lying.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur long-term goal is to show the world that Sudanese people, although with limited capabilities, have very good skills in many different fields,\u201d said Crush. In June, the gang posted a message of support for the Russian government to end an ongoing rebellion by the Wagner forces.<\/p>\n

However, Crush explained that \u201ca similar thing happened to our country and Russians stood with us so we wanted to pay them back\u201d, referring to Russia\u2019s support for the Sudanese government as it fights the ongoing civil war.<\/p>\n

He insists that their group is made up of a \u201csmall number\u201d of Sudanese hackers who are launching the attacks from the country in spite of regular internet outages.<\/p>\n

Since it emerged in January, Anonymous Sudan has successfully disrupted dozens of organisations and government web services in France, Nigeria, Israel and the US.<\/p>\n

For the past month the gang has attacked Kenya, claiming the country\u2019s government is \u201cmeddling in Sudanese affairs\u201d. One attack heavily disrupted the country\u2019s eCitizen portal used by the public to access more than 5,000 government services.<\/p>\n

When challenged about the impacts on citizens, Crush defended the actions and said: \u201cThe reason we hit infrastructure is to teach the country and its rulers a lesson, and yes we have red lines, that is if our attacks harm a lot of innocents.<\/p>\n

\u201d However, the group has also unsuccessfully attacked hospitals.<\/p>\n

The gang claims to be carrying out the criminal attacks to \u201cdefend the Truth, Islam and Sudan\u201d, but on at least two occasions it has also tried to extort victims for Bitcoin. It has also targeted websites like OnlyFans, Tumblr and Reddit, saying that they promote what it calls \u201cdisgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ things\u201d.<\/p>\n

In June, the hackers celebrated when the US cyber-authority issued an official warning about a wave of attacks against American organisations which it warned \u201ccan cost an organisation time and money and may impose reputational costs while resources and services are inaccessible\u201d.<\/p>\n

Its most high-profile attack in June disrupted Microsoft services including Outlook and OneDrive, forcing the tech giant to issue a report with advice to customers on how to prevent being affected by the group.<\/p>\n

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