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Global crackdown hits pro-Russian cybercrime, 100+ systems taken down worldwide


In a major blow to pro-Russian cybercrime, authorities launched a sweeping international crackdown on the hacking group NoName057(16).

In a major blow to pro-Russian cybercrime, authorities across Europe and the United States launched a sweeping international crackdown on the hacking group NoName057(16) between 14 and 17 July. Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Czechia, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United States took part in the simultaneous actions. The operation disrupted a global attack infrastructure comprising more than 100 computer systems, and a significant portion of the group’s central servers was taken offline.

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