Russian hacktivists DDoS hospitals, with pathetic results
(2023/02/28)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2023/02/28/anonymous_sudan_ddos_hospitals/
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A series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals' websites for a few hours on Sunday, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers' operations or digital infrastructure.
Copenhagen's health authority [1]confirmed the outages in a tweet, and directed patients to an emergency page with the hospitals' phone numbers.
"Region H the hospitals' websites are down," it read, in Danish. "We are working on getting the websites up and running again. The rest of our digital infrastructure is not affected by the incident."
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A few hours later, the health authority [3]reported that all nine hospitals' websites were up and running again.
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A group of miscreants called Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the network traffic flood on its Telegram page. "Some hospitals in Denmark have been attacked for burning the Quran, and more will be attacked in the coming hours," the group [6]wrote .
In January, Rasmus Paludan – a far-right Swedish-Danish politician and [7]convicted racist – burned a Quran in front of a mosque in Denmark.
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Anonymous Sudan, as the name would suggest, [9]claims to be based in Sudan and affiliated with an earlier group of the same name that traces its roots to a 2019 military coup.
However, [10]security researchers say the 2023 hacktivists are likely Russian or located in former Soviet Union countries with [11]ties to Killnet – another [12]second-rate hacktivist crew that sprang up as a pro-Russia DDoS gang during the Ukraine war.
Last month, Anonymous Sudan [13]took credit for a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of the German foreign intelligence service and the Cabinet of Germany, in support of Killnet.
[14]Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances
[15]'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites
[16]FBI: Russian hacktivists achieve only 'limited' DDoS success
[17]Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts
Killnet, on its Russian-language Telegram channels, had urged fellow pro-Kremlin hackers to launch these traffic tsunamis against German infrastructure and government websites in response to the country's plan to send tanks to Ukraine.
While Anonymous Sudan and others heeded the call, the attacks were [18]largely in vain , according to Germany's cyber security agency.
[19]
Earlier this month, the same criminal gang claimed responsibility for attacks on Swedish websites, including the national broadcaster SVT and the Swedish health service, according to Denmark news outlet [20]The Local .
Last week, Radio Sweden reported that a group of private Swedish cybersecurity firms [21]took down 61 servers belonging to Anonymous Sudan that were hosted in Germany on IBM's cloud service. ®
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[1] https://twitter.com/RegionH/status/1629872125212344325
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://twitter.com/RegionH/status/1629931458067415041
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[5] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[6] https://t.me/AnonymousSudan/212
[7] https://cphpost.dk/2021-09-03/news/high-court-finds-rasmus-paludan-guilty-of-racism-but-mitigates-punishment/
[8] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[9] https://twitter.com/OpSudan
[10] https://www.truesec.com/hub/blog/what-is-anonymous-sudan
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/russian_cybercrime_economy/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/08/fbi_hacktivists_useless/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/30/russian_hackers_ddos_germany/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/russian_cybercrime_economy/
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/german_airport_websites_ddos/
[16] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/08/fbi_hacktivists_useless/
[17] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/23/russia_fake_missile_alerts/
[18] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-hacktivists-briefly-knock-german-websites-offline-2023-01-25/
[19] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[20] https://www.thelocal.dk/20230227/danish-hospital-websites-targeted-in-cyber-attack/
[21] https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/61-servers-belonging-to-hacker-group-anonymous-sudan-shut-down
[22] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Copenhagen's health authority [1]confirmed the outages in a tweet, and directed patients to an emergency page with the hospitals' phone numbers.
"Region H the hospitals' websites are down," it read, in Danish. "We are working on getting the websites up and running again. The rest of our digital infrastructure is not affected by the incident."
[2]
A few hours later, the health authority [3]reported that all nine hospitals' websites were up and running again.
[4]
[5]
A group of miscreants called Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the network traffic flood on its Telegram page. "Some hospitals in Denmark have been attacked for burning the Quran, and more will be attacked in the coming hours," the group [6]wrote .
In January, Rasmus Paludan – a far-right Swedish-Danish politician and [7]convicted racist – burned a Quran in front of a mosque in Denmark.
[8]
Anonymous Sudan, as the name would suggest, [9]claims to be based in Sudan and affiliated with an earlier group of the same name that traces its roots to a 2019 military coup.
However, [10]security researchers say the 2023 hacktivists are likely Russian or located in former Soviet Union countries with [11]ties to Killnet – another [12]second-rate hacktivist crew that sprang up as a pro-Russia DDoS gang during the Ukraine war.
Last month, Anonymous Sudan [13]took credit for a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of the German foreign intelligence service and the Cabinet of Germany, in support of Killnet.
[14]Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances
[15]'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites
[16]FBI: Russian hacktivists achieve only 'limited' DDoS success
[17]Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts
Killnet, on its Russian-language Telegram channels, had urged fellow pro-Kremlin hackers to launch these traffic tsunamis against German infrastructure and government websites in response to the country's plan to send tanks to Ukraine.
While Anonymous Sudan and others heeded the call, the attacks were [18]largely in vain , according to Germany's cyber security agency.
[19]
Earlier this month, the same criminal gang claimed responsibility for attacks on Swedish websites, including the national broadcaster SVT and the Swedish health service, according to Denmark news outlet [20]The Local .
Last week, Radio Sweden reported that a group of private Swedish cybersecurity firms [21]took down 61 servers belonging to Anonymous Sudan that were hosted in Germany on IBM's cloud service. ®
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[1] https://twitter.com/RegionH/status/1629872125212344325
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://twitter.com/RegionH/status/1629931458067415041
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[5] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[6] https://t.me/AnonymousSudan/212
[7] https://cphpost.dk/2021-09-03/news/high-court-finds-rasmus-paludan-guilty-of-racism-but-mitigates-punishment/
[8] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[9] https://twitter.com/OpSudan
[10] https://www.truesec.com/hub/blog/what-is-anonymous-sudan
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/russian_cybercrime_economy/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/08/fbi_hacktivists_useless/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/30/russian_hackers_ddos_germany/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/russian_cybercrime_economy/
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/german_airport_websites_ddos/
[16] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/08/fbi_hacktivists_useless/
[17] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/23/russia_fake_missile_alerts/
[18] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-hacktivists-briefly-knock-german-websites-offline-2023-01-25/
[19] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y-3e1UwABC5fCtNcKbbpVAAAAMU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[20] https://www.thelocal.dk/20230227/danish-hospital-websites-targeted-in-cyber-attack/
[21] https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/61-servers-belonging-to-hacker-group-anonymous-sudan-shut-down
[22] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Because
Anonymous Coward
No, because the people trying/doing this have dropped so far out of having a sense of humanity they are IMHO beyond redemption.
If they catch them they should be locked up with only access to books and nothing more technical than an etch-a-sketch of which one of the dials no longer works.
I know that's repaying cruelty with cruelty, but that vermin is worth it. Sinking so low should have consequences.
Some hospitals in Denmark have been attacked for burning the Quran
Neil Barnes
(a) Is this a service normally supplied by Danish hospitals? and
(b) Are the people who are so upset by such an activity (performed by a hospital or otherwise) aware of the concept that the medium is not the message?
> pathetic results
ChoHag
Do I have this right? When it's one of them the attacks are "largely in vain" and when it's one of ours it's a "sophisticated attacker"?
Does the method materially differ in either case, or just the reporting?
Because
attacking hospitals will make the Right Pondians like Putin better? Or cower in fear of script kiddies and quit supporting Ukraine?