#anonymous sudan

[sanyu-thewitch05]

I certainly didn’t see this being on my 2023 bingo card.

Edit: Ya’ll this meme above isn’t accurate anymore since other messages from the group came out. I made this meme when the first initial message came out.

The meme down below is more correct as to what’s probably happening with Ao3. Also wanted to say that despite the name of group, the people behind it are probably Russians.

Edit: July 11th, So Ao3 is back! Though the donation link is being attacked now. There’s also a second account on Twitter trying to impersonate Ao3.

#a03 #fanfic #fanfiction #supernatural #ao3 #hackers #anonymous Sudan #lgbt #ao3 smut #the disgusting smuts were the hackers words #like so what? #you can’t handle our noncon dubcon omegaverse angst mpreg smuts #go read fifty shades of grey then. it’s not our fault you can’t handle us #also the fact they called it disgusting smuts implies that they had to have went to ao3 and read smut on there #Edit: they just released a statement saying they want 30k in US dollars in bitcoin for the ao3 servers #i reblogged that statement twice I believe #and to hold a non profit organization as a virtual hostage? #really #like they’d have better luck holding Wattpad for hostage

[vampirepunks]

Edit, disclaimer: Take this video with a grain of salt, y'all. I follow this guy on TikTok because we have a lot of shared leftist views, but you should know he frequently employs deadpan hyperbole for comedic purposes. Much of this is intentionally exaggerated to convey his point and communicate how frustratingly ridiculous this all sounds on paper. Those of you taking this as 100% accurate and literal are missing the point and exchanging one piece of misinformation for another.

Ao3 is not the first attack carried out by this hacker group and I doubt it will be the last. Cybersecurity experts have good reason to believe Anonymous Sudan is Russian and intentionally creating division between Muslim nations and the West, but that's roughly the limit of the information available to the public. As their attacks are a potential national security issue for the countries affected, not all of the facts are available to the general populace. We can make inferences based on what we do know, but assuming this narrative is the only possible correct one is fundamentally misguided. Please take the time to do your own fact-checking before sharing your opinion and don't believe everything you hear on social media.

#don’t spread misinformation y’all #pearlmania500 #ao3 #ao3 ddos #anonymous sudan #on politics #tiktok #videos

[goliath-birdeater]

Do NOT pay this ransom.

I repeat. DO NOT DONATE MONEY TO THIS HATEGROUP!!!

#ao3 #ao3 ddos #anonymous sudan

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

Hi, I've reblogged other posts discussing this, but I thought it might be good making my own post with links to various sources suggesting that

Anonymous Sudan is probably lying through their teeth about their motivations; they are most likely affiliated with Russia and are not associated with Sudan. They are currently communicating in Arabic and Sudanese, but seem to have spoken in Russian before someone wondered why the fuck a seemingly Sudanese group was speaking Russian.

This is not the first time this group has attacked American territory; there were early Microsoft outages in early June. These attack seems to have ceased after appearing intermittently for while and I'm pretty sure Microsoft is currently running okay, although of course they still have more resources than ao3's volunteer staff.

The attack is possibly motivated by political forces, but it seems to be more about U.S-Russian shit than homophobia, considering their range of past targets, not that anything is certain with these fuckheads.

Microsoft was told to pay ransom (like I think ao3 might be being told now) but I couldn't find anything suggesting that they did.

The important thing if you want to find out more is to keep looking shit up and see what overlaps from a lot of different sources, since this is a fluid situation, and to not trust a word AS says about what they want and what they're capable of.

If anyone who knows anything about hacking shit wants to chime in, please feel free!

#microsoft #false flag #anonymous sudan #ao3 #ao3 down #links #cnbc #russia

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

So AO3 is down and a lot of people are questioning why a DDOS attack would hit a company who survives off donations (and makes zero profit)

And it's probably a political distraction. Let me explain - the group Anonymous Sudan is a Russian hacking collective posing as religiously motivated group connected to the Sudanese Government. So their entire thing is to hack into western (specifically USAmerican) businesses, and make it look like it's a bunch of Sudanese Muslims who really hate America and 'the gays'.

Initially they attacked Microsoft - big corporation Now they attacked Ao3 - incredibly popular website with large cultural impact.

Essentially now they have both the public and big monopolies against them - but not really. See majority of the public actually think they're Sudanese, and a Islamic hacking collective.

Take into account the US's extreme hatred for Muslims (let alone Black Muslims) and also the entire thing with Russia - it's possible that they're trying to push the US into wasting resources on Sudan and creating an even stronger conflict between White Americans and POC as a way of leaving no resources for a very imminent Russia-US war.

#ao3 #my post #anonymous #anonymous sudan #ao3feed #ao3 stuff #archive of our own #fanfiction #fanfic #a03

[samar-arijjj]

hey i get a lot if y’all are mad about ao3 but guess what? you don’t get to hate on religious people, and you don’t get to make assumptions about us and our god (muslims, specifically) without knowing anything about our beliefs. this is not. a. fucking. excuse. to talk shit about muslims. there are queer muslims, there are muslims who are normal fucking people who believe that it is of utmost importance to be loving and kind human beings, above all other things. we are not monstrous terrorists.

you don’t get to make *sweeping* generalizations on an entire fucking religion because you don’t have access to your fucking bedtime story.

#ao3 attack #ao3 #anonymous sudan #i will not hesitate to fight the next bitch who wants to talk shit #i’m actually tired of having people assume i’m an ultra-conservative naïve little girl who doesn’t know what coochie means #just because i’m muslim #like bitch i will fight y’all in a motherfucking denny’s parking lot. give me a fucking location and i’ll be there itsg

[officialdashcon2024]

Would it be a bad idea to write A/B/O fic of Omega!AnonymousSudan and Alpha!AO3?

Asking for a friend

#ao3 #dashcon 2024 posts #anonymous sudan #the fic will be gay and transgender btw #the fic won’t be posted on ao3 rn but it’ll be put on every other site I can think of #fabrication.net is a hellsite (derogatory) but if I can post there I will #ao3 down #fanfic #fanfiction #if there’s any other tropes or even fetishes you think they’ll hate tell me #I’ll make more one shots of anonymous Sudan getting railed

[spacetime1969]

Looks like the group targeting AO3 who've identified themselves as Anonymous Sudan probably have nothing whatsoever to do with Sudan and are either funded and trained by the Russian government or are straight up a cover for Russian cyber attacks.

The main things that seem to be leading cybersecurity experts to this conclusion:

The tactics line up with the methods of the Russian backed KillNet hacker group

The targets line up with Russian government interests

And the resources used to carry out attacks are expensive and require significant funding.

This does lead to an interesting question of why AO3 of all sites was selected, if I had to guess (and unlike the notes above, this is just me guessing and not backed up by experts) I'd say that there are two things that make AO3 an effective target: There's a large amount of traffic, and it fits the cover.

Attacking a target that doesn't necessarily directly benefit the Russian state's interests helps blur the trail, and making sure that the target has a large userbase means that the cover gets spread to a large amount of people quickly.

This is actually part of the reason I'm making this post. Spreading awareness of the source of the attack actually weakens the attack, and if we spread the word far enough that Anonymous Sudan is actually the Russian government we can make the attack an actual failure by revealing the cover instead of helping secure it.

Here's an article that goes more in-depth on Anonymous Sudan if you want to know more details:

#ao3 #anonymous sudan #ao3 attack #cybersecurity #cyberattack

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Someone is attacking AO3!!!

Edit: We’ve got a name for the attacker! Apparently a group called Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility for the DDOS attack!

Edit: They’re holding Ao3 for ransom!

Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/falconfeedsio/status/1678573978355474435?s=46&t=VgNCf575PY7lLqxkH7ldJw

#who would do this #literally who? #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfic writers #who chooses to do this to ao3 of all things #ddos attack #denial of service attack #fanfic #archive of our own #anonymous sudan #this is pretty interesting considering I fall into the disgusting smuts category. Especially if you've seen my works at all. #homophobia

[cacodaemonia]

I woke up and saw that AO3 is still down with no status updates so I wanted to share a couple of links from the last few hours.

Huge thanks to @ao3org volunteers for dealing with all of this even though there's not much they can do in the face of a DDoS attack. <3

#ao3 #ddos attack #anonymous sudan #(they are neither sudanese nor part of anonymous) #i really wanted to post the next chapter of my cyborg AU T__T

[aurpiment]

The “Anonymous Sudan” hackers are lying about being Muslim homophobes, probably because admitting to just wanting 30,000 BTC makes it look like they can be haggled with or waited out in a way an extremist can’t. Also, it’s a cover. Though it’s not a very good one.

(Original post contained a currency conversion off by a factor of 30,000. This changes everything. Disregard any conclusions about being in it for the OTW money. This is 100% a publicity stunt to ensure future targets take them seriously.)

Also, they want visibility. They want people to know about their DDoS attack. Going off about a minority (LGBT) that is constantly in the news and that people have strong feelings about gets attention. Pretending to be a minority (Muslim, a minority in the “West”) that is constantly in the news and that people have strong feelings about gets attention.

I think this is primarily about getting money and (I no longer believe this is about getting money from the OTW. This is about getting money from future targets.) targeting a site that gets a lot of traffic and has small infrastructure and staff. That makes the attack more visible and more difficult to defend against.

Visibility benefits them because being on the map makes targeted sites take their threats (and therefore demands) more seriously. How many non-Outlook users and non-techie people knew about their previous attack? Outlook may be a more essential service for its users, but it hasn’t got that pop culture reach, and Microsoft is a bigger, better-defended animal than, say, the OTW servers. Outlook was only down for two hours! UPS, which was also targeted, was only down for about three hours!

Also, it’s interesting to see Anonymous Sudan type out LGBTQ+ with the Q+ and mirror the online language of anglophone Archive of Our Own fans (“smuts”) and critics (“corrupting children,” “pedo admins.”)

I’ve seen people argue that a real bigot wouldn’t spell LGBT with a Q+ or call works of written erotica “smuts” or “N S F W” but that’s such a monolingual anglophone take. Obviously, the hacking group is a false flag operation pretending to be Sudanese and pretending that their homophobia is Muslim in origin. Like, that part has been clear since the beginning. (They didn’t even start out posting updates in Arabic and English. They started out posting updates in Russian and English. Which isn’t to say that speaking Russian is the sole reason why they’re probably Russian—people more familiar with cybersecurity are saying their modus operandi is consistent with past attacks by Russian hacking groups.)

But it’s silly to say they’re not “real bigots,” even if they’re primarily motivated by money and notoriety. What is a “fake bigot”? If you’re fine with gay sex/trans gender, you’re not going to write a screed about how degenerate and contagious they are in the hopes using both the irritation of gay/trans people and the sympathy of homo/transphobes to increase your visibility. Also, and to me more apparent, if you’re a second-language speaker and you see speakers in your target language spell an acronym differently and see them broadly use a particular word to refer to something, you’re going to emulate them, and you’re not easily going to pick up on the tongue-in-cheek connotation “smut” has when said by English-speakers who have a written erotica reading/writing hobby.

Also, and this one is pretty important, if you’re pretending to be Muslim to get the attention of islamophobic westerners, it’s safe to say you’re not a great ally of Muslim people either. Again, what is a “fake bigot”?

Idk how this is going to end. I don’t know if the Archive’s team can fend off the DDoS attack, but they could hire outside help. I do think they’ll continue to refuse to pay the hackers’ ransom. If you’re an American-based company, it’s not in your self-interest to fund a group whose stated mission is to target American-based internet infrastructure.

TLDR: the attack is likely not primarily motivated by culture war issues, but is using homo/transphobic rhetoric and counting on western Islamophobia to get noticed.

Post closed— I used the wrong currency converter. The difference between 900M and 30K changes everything. 900M is 30K squared. 30K is an amount of money they could expect to get from the OTW. 900M is not an amount of money they can in any world actually expect to get from the OTW. They 100% want to get noticed. This is a publicity stunt. Whatever money they’re after, they clearly expect to get it from future targets, not the OTW.

#mt #ao3 #anonymous sudan

[reactive-particle]

Direct screenshots of a post by user: Somnolent-scout

Nooooo! Guys, as explained in the screenshots, please stay off the website :)

#ao3 update #ao3 #ddos attack #anonymous sudan #somnolent-scout #anti lgbt themes #anti nswf themes #fanfic #fanfiction

[wandering-wolf23]

I’ve gotten to the point where I’m blocking/unfollowing folks posting bad takes about the Ao3 DDoS attack.

Yes, Russians did it. Anonymous Sudan is Russian. Identifying them as Russian is not xenophobia. Nor is stating that Russian culture is extremely homophobic. There are a lot of people here who have no idea about life outside the US and that queer rights are not global.

Actual cybersecurity experts have identified Anonymous Sudan as Russian. I promise you that they do not care about fanfics or Ao3. The government of Sweden - the first people to deal with these assholes - does not care about your gay porn (unless you access it on government computers. Please never access NSFW on government property, it will not go well). The fact that people are taking the words of randos on the internet instead of the actual experts is pissing me off.

I’m not in the mood for it/the best headspace to deal with it.

#anonymous sudan #in light of recent events #dispatches #discourse related #i've done a write up on anonymous sudan #they are russian

[on-the-edge-of-dune]

i wish for AS members to have explosive diarrhea, warm pillows, lactose intolerance, 40% lung capacity, sleep paralysis, incontinence, limp dicks, moldy house interior corners, cystic acne plus dermatillomania, their bought stocks going permanently down before they manage to sell, rusty water pipes, gonorrhoea, serious vitamin deficiency, friendjail (think of what incels call "friendzone", but worse), shitty parents, decades of inability to pay rent/mortgage, every meal never being the right temperature, early balding, their prostate checked by indecisive doctor repeatedly because the results always come out differently AND last but not least, a huge identity crisis during which they realise they're queer as fuck

#as attack #another group of sexually frustrated alphas #anonymous sudan #only gays in denial go to such lenghts (you know u like them lenghst stop lyin to yourselves) as to attack a site for including other gays #why are you thinking about gay people so much #im queer and don't think about queer as much as these bitches #ddos attack #ao3 #we stan

[samar-arijjj]

actually the ao3 attack pisses me off. does anonymous sudan realize that the quran doesn’t actually specify whether or not homosexuality is a sin? allah didn’t punish the people of lot for being gay, you fucking dumbasses—shit, allah himself is agender. so sorry for being queer, anonymous sudan, so sorry that i want to express my identity without being persecuted.

may allah rain hellfire on the twat faces associated with anonymous sudan.

#ao3 #anonymous sudan