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Pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName attacks in Spain after three members were arrested by Spanish authorities for cyber terror attacks against Spain and other NATO allies who support Ukraine.
The gang followed the arrests by posting on its Telegram channel and immediately retaliating against it with a wave of cyberattacks against Spanish critical infrastructure. “We declare a vendetta against the Spanish authorities, who lawlessly detained our comrades!” stated the group, labeling the operation a “witch hunt.” They also called on all pro-Russian hacker groups to “join us in unleashing all their power on the Internet infrastructure of Spain as a sign of support for the detainees,” adding “Glory to Russia!” The gang also claimed several attacks against Spain’s infrastructure, as well as over a dozen sites in the Czech Republic.
NoName later boasted how the US and EU authorities were “afraid of them” and how the gang managed to cause “enormous damage to all sponsors of the Zelensky criminal regime around the clock.”
According to Cybernews, NoName was first introduced in March 2022 as a response to the West and its “aversion to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” It operates using Telegram channels where it claims responsibility for its attacks, mocks targets, and makes threats. It mainly uses DDoS attacks against the websites of Western governments and critical infrastructure entities in the US, the EU, Israel, and Ukraine.
While such attacks are usually more of a localized annoyance than a cause of lasting damage or disruptions, the sheer volume of the group’s attacks makes their activity more significant – Radware research shows that in the first half of 2023, the gang carried out 1174 attacks in 32 Western nations in just 176 days.
NoName’s attacks throughout 2023 targeted NATO, Italy’s banking system, several of Europe’s largest ports, and Ukraine’s financial sector, while they claimed critical infrastructure attacks against Poland, Denmark, Lithuania, and the French parliament.
