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    Anonymous goes after Gupta websites

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    Hacktivist group Anonymous Africa said it was attempting to down websites of Gupta-linked media outlets ANN7 and The New Age on Wednesday.

    Earlier on Wednesday, Anonymous Africa tweeted: “At 12[pm,] the ANN7 website will be too busy landing at Waterkloof Denial of Service Airfield to see visitors. #TickTock.”

    But despite these threats, the ANN7 and The New Age websites were still operating normally past 1pm on Wednesday, putting into question the hacktivist’s promised attacks.

    Spokespeople at ANN7 and The New Age could not be reached for comment on Wednesday afternoon.

    Anonymous Africa said it has also targeted the website of Gupta-linked company Sahara Computers on Wednesday. But at the time of writing, Sahara’s website was also still up and running.

    Representatives at Sahara were not willing to comment on the matter contacted on Wednesday afternoon. The representatives instead reporters to the computer company’s holding group, Oakbay Investments.

    The Gupta brothers and President Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane Zuma, earlier this year resigned from Oakbay Investments and Oakbay Resources and Energy. However, the Gupta brothers remain dominant shareholders in the companies.

    Oakbay was contacted for comment but had not replied at the time of publication.

    Coincidentally, websites belonging to Oakbay Investments and Oakbay Resources & Energy were inaccessible at 1.55pm on Wednesday, but it was unclear what the exact cause of this could be.

    Anonymous Africa said focus on the Gupta’s businesses comes amid allegations of state capture having swirled around the family and Zuma this year.

    However, Anonymous Africa has linked itself to attacks on other major South African websites this week.

    On Sunday, public broadcaster the SABC confirmed that it was the subject of a hack attack that resulted in several of its websites going down for hours on that day.

    Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for the attack while the SABC said it was investigating the matter. Anonymous Africa said it carried out the attack in light of allegations of creeping censorship at the SABC.

    Then, on Tuesday, Anonymous Africa threatened to down the website belonging to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF.

    The hacktivist group said it was attacking the EFF website because of what it said was the political party’s alleged “racisim”.

    The EFF website subsequently experienced several hours downtime on Tuesday amid the threats, according to reports.

    In its said attacks this week, Anonymous Africa has said in tweets that it’s using what is called a “distributed denial of service” method.

    This typically involves using compromised computers on a network to flood a web server with thousands of requests that often temporarily disrupt a website’s services.

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