Operation Eastwood shutters 100+ servers used to DDoS websites supporting Ukraine

International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.

The joint law enforcement effort involved 19 countries across Europe and North America, and resulted in two arrests of Russian nationals, one in France and one in Spain.

NoName057(16) is one of several hacktivist operations made up of Russian-speaking sympathizers that sprang up shortly after the invasion of Ukraine. While their network-traffic tsunamis originally targeted the invaded country's government and critical infrastructure websites, the crews have since shifted to attacking countries that provide support for Ukraine.

Europol estimates the group has more than 4,000 supporters, who have built their own botnet made up of several hundred servers to increase the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack load.

Luckily, their junk-traffic floods don't do much more than knock websites offline, briefly. NoName057(16 ...