An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Eastwood" has targeted the infrastructure and members of the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), responsible for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks across Europe, Israel, and Ukraine. On July 15, law enforcement agencies conducted searches in Germany, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Czechia, Poland, and France, with more than 100 servers hosting the group's infrastructure disrupted or taken offline. "The hacktivist group has executed 14 attacks in Germany, some of them lasting multiple days and affecting around 230 organisations including arms factories, power suppliers and government organisations," reads a statement from Eurojust. To conduct attacks, the group uses Telegram channels and the "DDoSia" project, software that runs on volunteers' computers to crowdsource DDoS attacks on targets selected by the threat actors. Two arrests have been made as part of this operation (1 preliminary arrest in France and 1 in Spain), and seven European arrest warrants were issued, including six by Germany and one by Spain. The operation involved law enforcement from Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Since then, NoName057(16) and its supporters have carried out DDoS attacks against companies and critical infrastructure in European countries that support Ukraine.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:10:13 +0000