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Noname057 (16) carried out thousands of attacks on Ukraine and its supporters.

An international operation stretching in North America and Europe has reduced a group of electronic crimes supporting Russia linked to thousands of attacks on Ukraine and its allies.

In recent days, the implementation of the law that works together in 19 countries dismantled the operations of the Noname057 electronic crime network (16), according to a statement issued by Europol on Wednesday.

The pro -Russian group, which has been operating since 2022, targeted Ukraine at first but expanded to countries throughout Europe. Europol said that more than 250 German companies and institutions, and the latest NATO meetings in the Netherlands.

The police agency said the international operation “led to the disruption of the sub -structure of the attack, which consists of more than a hundred computer systems worldwide, while a large part of the group’s central servant’s infrastructure was taken in non -communication.”

Law enforcement and judicial authorities from France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the United States have taken simultaneous measures against the perpetrators and the infrastructure of the pro -Russian network.

German prosecutors said that the group had used the Telegram messaging application to recruit more than 4000 volunteers, who made their systems available to critical institutions servers with the so -called service attack distributor.

They said that the searched building included those associated with volunteers in the Telegram Group.

Europol said that the judicial authorities in Germany had issued six arrest orders for the suspects in Russia, and two of them were accused of being the main leaders of the group. Five of them were identified on the required Europol Europe.

Europol said that one of the suspects was placed under a preliminary arrest in France and another detained in Spain. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office said that a person had been detained in France and telecommunications equipment was seized. No fees have been submitted yet. In the United States, the FBI participated in the process.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Switzerland, not a country of European Union, said in a statement on Wednesday that the joint investigations between Europol and the Swiss Federal Police helped to identify three prominent members in the group, which targeted more than 200 Swiss sites.

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal case on accidents in June 2023, and since then, many other service denial attacks attributed to the active group have identified. The attacks included a video title by Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski to the Swiss Parliament and the famous Eurovision Song competition, which was held in Basel earlier this year.

In recent years, the collective, known as the Russian interests, which have been claimed to have carried out successful electronic attacks in Ukraine and the government, infrastructure, banking services, health services, and communications sites in European countries that opposed Russia’s invasion.

The European authorities are increasingly concerned with the size of the hybrid threats that they say stems from Russia, which is in the third year of its invasion of Western ally Ukraine.

These threats, which included killings and alleged bombs against institutions and shipping aircraft, are largely attributed to government actors. Russia denied this accusation.

Europol said that the people who were recruited by the group were pushed into the encrypted currency and stimulated using the online game dynamics such as the captain’s paintings and badges.

“This prior manipulation, which was often targeted the perpetrators of the younger crime, was enhanced by an emotional narration to defend Russia or critical political events,” Europol said.