The CyberWeek - Operation Eastwood special and NoName057(16)'s response

When a group boasts about being the one that attacks the most in the world and its infrastructure is suddenly torn down, the interesting question isn’t what happened, but how it’s coping on the inside. In this CyberWeek special we get into Operation Eastwood, the international strike coordinated by the FBI, Europol, Interpol and several European forces against NoName057(16), the most active pro-Russian hacktivist group on the planet.

The tally is emphatic. Two arrests in Spain and more than a hundred servers seized across Europe. With that on the table, the community was asking the obvious: has NoName really lost operational capacity, or is it just a headline? And who takes the throne if the number one is stripped of its infrastructure? To avoid getting stuck in speculation, we went back to what works best, asking the source directly. I bring a fresh exclusive interview with the group itself, organised this time in blocks, on the effects of the operation, internal morale and that retaliation hashtag that started circulating among allied groups. As the saying goes, data beats narrative.