Spanish Police arrested three individuals on July 20, 2024, who are suspected of participating in a series of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and government institutions in Spain and other NATO countries.
The detainees are believed to be affiliated with the hacktivist group NoName057(16), known for its pro-Russian ideology and launching DDoS attacks against entities supporting Ukraine in the ongoing conflict.
For a decade, a group called Big Pipes has worked behind the scenes with the FBI to target the worst cybercriminal “booter” services plaguing the internet.
WHEN THE FBI announced the takedown of 13 cyberattack-for-hire services yesterday, it may have seemed like just another day in law enforcement’s cat-and-mouse game with a criminal industry that has long plagued the internet’s infrastructure, bombarding victims with relentless waves of junk internet traffic to knock them offline. In fact, it was the latest win for a discreet group of detectives that has quietly worked behind the scenes for nearly a decade with the goal of ending that plague for good.