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Prolific DDoS specialists Anonymous Sudan have taken down US financial services company Wells Fargo, disabling online banking.
The group posted to their Telegram with proof that it had disabled the company’s online banking, with a down detector screenshot and a screengrab of the company’s website.
Investigation by Cyber Security Connect suggests that the service has since returned to normal, with the check-host.net website that the threat group linked to as proof now showing that Wells Fargo’s servers are once again operational.
Cyber Security Connect was also able to access the organisation’s online banking. The online banking servers appear to be down for a couple of hours.
Cyber Security Connect has reached out to Wells Fargo for comment on the incident and is awaiting a response.
Wells Fargo is a major financial services company in the US, with over 217,000 employees.
Anonymous Sudan is known for using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as its weapon of choice, having launched multiple attacks against high-profile targets of late.
The group targeted X (formerly Twitter) last week in an effort to pressure chief executive Elon Musk into providing Starlink in Sudan.
“Make our message reach to Elon Musk: ‘Open Starlink in Sudan’,” the group said on Telegram.
On the same day, the group also targeted the French postal service La Poste and the community-based fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own (Ao3).
“Archive of our Own, we downed you earlier today, enjoy part two,” referring to an attack on the site it launched back in July.
In the previous attack, Ao3 was taken down completely, with the group saying it was because the hackers were “against all forms of degeneracy, and the site is full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” it said in a post.
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