MADRID: Three pro-Russian hackers have been arrested for alleged cyberattacks towards Spain and different Nato international locations for terrorist functions, Spanish police stated on Saturday.
The suspects had been detained for his or her alleged participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber assaults towards public establishments and strategic sectors, the Civil Guard stated.
It didn’t say if the three suspects, who haven’t been named, have been charged or detained
The cyberattacks had been allegedly carried out towards net pages of private and non-private organizations within the authorities sectors, crucial infrastructures and important companies in international locations which assist Ukraine within the battle with Russia, it stated.
Police launched a video on social media platform X of a raid on the residence of one of many suspects by which a Soviet-era hammer and sickle flag was mounted on a wall.
“These pc assaults have been organized by the hacktivist group NoName057(16), (which began) after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and (which has been) one of the lively,” the Civil Guard stated in an announcement.
“In their very own founding manifesto, this group acknowledges that they ‘will reply proportionately in response to the hostile and brazenly anti-Russian actions of Western Russophobes’.”
The arrests occurred in Manacor on Spain’s Balearic Island of Mallorca, and in Huelva and Seville, in southern Spain, police stated.
Police stated the investigation was ongoing.
The suspects had been detained for his or her alleged participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber assaults towards public establishments and strategic sectors, the Civil Guard stated.
It didn’t say if the three suspects, who haven’t been named, have been charged or detained
The cyberattacks had been allegedly carried out towards net pages of private and non-private organizations within the authorities sectors, crucial infrastructures and important companies in international locations which assist Ukraine within the battle with Russia, it stated.
Police launched a video on social media platform X of a raid on the residence of one of many suspects by which a Soviet-era hammer and sickle flag was mounted on a wall.
“These pc assaults have been organized by the hacktivist group NoName057(16), (which began) after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and (which has been) one of the lively,” the Civil Guard stated in an announcement.
“In their very own founding manifesto, this group acknowledges that they ‘will reply proportionately in response to the hostile and brazenly anti-Russian actions of Western Russophobes’.”
The arrests occurred in Manacor on Spain’s Balearic Island of Mallorca, and in Huelva and Seville, in southern Spain, police stated.
Police stated the investigation was ongoing.
