The Civil Guard has arrested three people in the towns of Manacor (Balearic Islands), Huelva y Sevilla for his alleged involvement in denial of service cyberattacks against public institutions and strategic sectors in Spain and other NATO countries. The registration of their addressesinvolving various computer and documentary material of interest.
These cyber attacks have been organized by the acktivist group NoName057(16)which was born after the start of the war resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has been one of the most active since then. In its own founding manifesto, this group acknowledges that it will “respond proportionally in response to the hostile and openly anti-Russian actions of Western Russophobes.”
The main activity of this group is carrying out Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against websites of public bodies and private sectors of government, critical infrastructure and essential services, from those countries that have positioned themselves in favour of Ukraine in the context of the armed conflict.
The particularity of cyber attacks carried out by NoName057(16) is that they are carried out using software developed by the group itself, software dubbed “DDoSia”which is used voluntarily by individuals who support the goals of this hacktivist organization.
The research has been coordinated by the The Office of the Prosecutor of the Computer Crime Division and the Office of the Prosecutor of the National Courtwhere the preliminary proceedings that led to the arrests were initiated. Civil Guard continues with several lines of investigation to continue identifying participants in the attacks.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
