"Russian Hacktivists Overwhelm Spanish Sites With DDoS"

A leading Spanish research institute has become the latest organization in the country to come under cyberattack from Russia after a weeks-long DDoS campaign that appears to be geopolitically motivated.  It has been claimed that the prolific hacktivist group NoName057 is responsible for the DDoS blitz, which impacted at least 72 websites between July 19 and 30.  Banks, telecoms providers, media, and tourism companies are thought to have been affected by the attacks, which followed a trip by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Kyiv in which he expressed his government’s support for Ukraine.  Victim websites included La Moncloa, the official residence of the PM, the Constitutional Court, the ministries of justice and territorial policy, and Ministry of Defence agency Isdefe.  NoName057 has been linked to previous attacks on organizations in Ukraine, allies Poland and Lithuania, and presidential candidates competing in the Czech Republic.  Separately, the Spanish National Research Council was hit by a ransomware attack on July 16–17.  The Spanish National Research Council claimed that no sensitive data was exfiltrated as part of the attacks, which have been attributed to the same actor that compromised NASA and Germany’s Max Planck Institute.

Infosecurity reports: "Russian Hacktivists Overwhelm Spanish Sites With DDoS"