Overview

• The operation took offline a major part of NoName057(16)’s central server infrastructure used to target municipalities and NATO-linked organizations
• German judicial authorities issued six arrest warrants for alleged group leaders in Russia and preliminary arrests were made in France and Spain
• Law enforcement agencies in over a dozen countries, including the FBI and Swiss federal police, conducted coordinated actions against offenders and infrastructure
• Authorities notified hundreds of suspected sympathizers about the crackdown and their potential legal liability for facilitating the DDoS campaign
• Europol described NoName057(16) as a decentralized network of Russian-speaking supporters using automated tools and gamified incentives to carry out attacks