Hacktivist launch attacks on Zanu-PF website

Hacktivist group Anonymous Africa said it has also launched attacks on a website belonging to Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party.

Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for the SABC websites' downtime with the hacktivist group saying it carried out the attack because of creeping censorship at the broadcaster.

On Tuesday, Anonymous Africa further claimed responsibility for downing the website of political party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). Anonymous Africa said it targeted the EFF for the party's alleged 'racism'.

"While teaching racist EFF trolls a lesson we have also decided to knock on their Godfathers door as well. http://www.zanupf.org.zw/ is down," Anonymous Africa tweeted.

Both sites were offline for a few hours.

Anonymous Africa said via Twitter on Wednesday that it had targeted taking down several websites of companies falling under the Oakbay Investments umbrella.

The attacks that the group has carried out this week have typically taken the form of 'Distributed Denial of Service' (DDoS) methods.

These types of attacks tap compromised computers on networks to launch thousands of requests at website's web servers, which typically results in service disruptions for those targeted sites.