DAKAR (Reuters) -A group of hackers called Mysterious Team made multiple Senegalese government websites go offline overnight on Friday by hitting them with denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, a government spokesperson said. The group claimed responsibility for the cyber attacks in a series of Twitter posts using the hashtag #FreeSenegal used by campaigners alleging political repression in Senegal. In a statement about the cyber attacks in the early hours of Saturday, government spokesperson Abdou Karim Fofana said all efforts were being made to bring the sites back online. On its Twitter account, the so-called Mysterious Team group says its members are "cyber warriors from Bangladesh". The group is little-known, but has carried out previous cyber attacks against the Ethiopian health ministry and Indian media, according to the European Repository of Cyber Incidents, an independent research consortium that analyses cyber incidents.

Source: Ethiopian News May 27, 2023 17:31 UTC