Overview

• Operation Eastwood resulted in the arrest of two suspects in France and Spain and the issuance of seven arrest warrants for Russian nationals.
• Investigators executed 24 searches at group affiliates, seizing servers and other materials now under forensic analysis.
• NoName057(16) used a global botnet of hundreds of compromised systems to launch over 74,000 DDoS attacks on critical infrastructure since 2023.
• The group publicly expressed support for the Russian Federation and synchronized DDoS attacks with high-profile events such as NATO summits and European Parliament sessions.
• Europol, Eurojust and national agencies from a dozen countries collaborated to neutralize a persistent cyber threat targeting electricity suppliers, public transport and government sites.