The First Website to record Anonymous attacks in Africa
South Africa
South Africa, the southernmost country on the African continent, renowned for its varied topography, great natural beauty, and cultural diversity. South Africa is bordered by Namibia to the northwest, by Botswana and Zimbabwe to the north, and by Mozambique and Swaziland to the northeast and east. With over 60 million people, the country is the world's 23rd-most populous nation and covers an area of 1,221,037 square kilometres (471,445 square miles). South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Cape Town respectively
History of the Internet
First attacks
Second attacks
The first South African IP address was granted to Rhodes University in 1988. On 12 November 1991, the first IP connection was made between Rhodes' computing centre and the home of Randy Bush in Portland, Oregon. By November 1991, South African universities were connected through UNINET to the Internet.
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in November 1993, South Africa’s first commercial ISP – The Internetworking Company of Southern Africa (Ticsa) – was formed.
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In 1997, 56kbps dial-up connections started to gain popularity, with products like MWEB’s Big Black Box attracting many new subscribers.
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Telkom brought broadband to South Africa in 2002, launching their first commercial ADSL product, with faster download speeds and a permanent connection to the Internet, without having to dial-up through a modem.
in 2016 South Africa saw an increased rollout of fibre-optic cables throughout South Africa.
in Aug 2015, Anonymous attacked South Africa under the banner of #OperationSA and #OpMonsanto in which the prime target of the attack was South African government contractor IT company’s subsidiaries “State Information Technology Agency (SITA).”
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SITA was attacked due to its importance in the country and data was leaked with the intention of raising voice against human rights abuses and dominance of the Monsanto company in South Africa, as well the Internet censorship.
Anonymous published a folder of the data contains emails, full names and phone numbers of the South African government officials including the parliamentarians.
In 2016 Anonymous attacked South African government as part of its #OpAfrica initiative.
Operation Africa is “a disassembly of corporations and governments that enable and perpetuate corruption on the African continent.” Anonymous said that in particular, the focus is on the issues of child labor and Internet censorship on the continent.
Anonymous hacked a database within the Government Communications and Information Systems (GCIS) department, leaking names, phone numbers, email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 1,000 government employees.
anonymous attacked south Africa government website by accessing to an old GCIS portal that hadn’t been updated, after this attacked South Africa government said that the vulnerability has been tracked down and closed.
Anonymous utilized three different ways to conduct their attacks, as following
1- Distributied-Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
2- 5. SQL Injections
3- Rootkits