Security News > 2023 > June > Anonymous Sudan’s Attack of European Investment Bank: Money, Politics and PR

Pro-Kremlin groups Anonymous Sudan, Killnet and Clop have other motivations than just hacktivism as they widen their attack field beyond political targets.

The June 19 attack against the European Investment Bank may have been a salvo aimed at thwarting financial pipelines supporting Ukraine's war effort, although the motives of the threat groups are still subject to speculation, experts say.

The latest distributed denial-of-service attack in 2023 by these threat groups, as well as the Russian-speaking extortion ransomware group Clop, follows exploits against Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Energy and many more organizations in a growing list of targets constituting a widening fan of targeted sectors.

Those who have tracked these three threat actors and new groups of botnet purveyors reported the attacks on EIB and its subsidiary, European Investment Fund, were aimed at ruffling the feathers of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication system, from which Russian institutions were banned in 2022.

WithSecure, a Finland-based security and threat intelligence company, noted that Anonymous Sudan has attacked targets in that nation, as well as hospitals in Denmark and airports, hospitals and schools in France.

Anonymous Sudan's ransom attack against Scandinavian Airlines speaks volumes about them being at least as motivated by lucre as by love of country.

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