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Prolific distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operator Anonymous Sudan has made Telegram its latest target, attempting to take down the messaging service after its “official” channel was banned.
Telegram has not shared its reasons for banning Anonymous Sudan – and there are certainly many other threat groups still operating channels on the service – but one security observer believes it could be linked to the group’s use of bots.
“... an examination of the channel’s activities prior to the ban suggests that the ban was likely a response to the use of bot accounts,” said threat intelligence platform SOCRadar.
“The bot accounts were used to inflate the channel’s user count. Anonymous Sudan’s Telegram channel had approximately 120,000 users, and the ban may have been enacted due to spam.”
According to another threat intelligence operator, CyberKnow on Twitter, after conducting the DDoS – which was effective for a time on 9 September – the group posted a message on another Telegram channel asking the messaging service why they had been banned.
“Message to Telegram,” the post read, along with a link to Check-host.net proving the site was down. “You should look into our main channel, why it was banned [sic]?”
Telegram is up and functional now, however.
Anonymous Sudan has been on quite the DDoS spree of late, targeting X (formerly known as Twitter) over Starlink operations in its own country, PayPal, Wells Fargo, and even fanfic hub An Archive of Our Own twice.
As to the identity of Anonymous Sudan, many researchers have felt the group is secretly linked to Russia, but the group’s operators have recently denied any such link, even going so far as to post pictures of their Sudanese passports.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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