Noname057(16)

Starting from March 2022, the NoName057(16) group has carried out a number of cyberattacks on Ukrainian media websites and Ukrainian media portals. For example, such as: the portal "Detector Media",[5] the site "Odessa Online",[6] the information agency "Competitor".[7]

The DDOS attack claimed by the NoName057(16) group disrupted the online train ticket sales system on the website and in the mobile application of the Latvian company Passenger Train (Pasažieru vilciens).[8] The company representatives stated in their Twitter account they had to stop selling tickets on the site and in the application because of the incident.

On June 21, representatives of the hacker group NoName 057(16) announced on their Telegram channel that they were joining the attacks on the websites of the Republic of Lithuania. In their appeal, they called on other communities of pro-Russian hackers, as well as individual hacktivists, to do the same. The hackers called their actions "revenge for Kaliningrad".[9] As a result, in about a month, the group carried out more than 200 attacks on Lithuanian Internet infrastructure resources. The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense stated that the participants in the attacks were pro-Russian "volunteer activists".[10] In particular, the group attacked the website of the Lithuanian company Ingstad,[11] the websites of Lithuanian airports[12][13] and other Internet resources. In addition to DDOS attacks on Lithuanian sites, hackers from NoName057(16) managed to perform a so-called deface on one of them. As a result, a message from hackers appeared on the main page of the resource of the logistics company ExpressTrip.

On June 7, 2022, NoName057(16) carried out a cyberattack on the website of the Central Bank of Estonia[source?]. Bank representatives confirmed the fact of the attack and emphasized that as a result of the incident, “the external website and the statistics module of the Bank of Estonia were not working due to technical reasons”.[27]

Also, hackers from NoName057(16) carried out attacks on the websites of American companies from various fields of activity. As a result of one of these attacks the website of the ITT company ceased to be available to users for a long time.

The group claimed responsibility for DDOS attacks on the sites of a number of businesses in the financial sector, along with the Ministry of Finance in January 2023, due to the Danish support to Ukraine.[14]

As a kind of protest against the decision of the Norwegian authorities to ban the delivery of goods to Russian citizens in the Svalbard archipelago, the NoName057(16) group organized attacks on a number of sites in Norway. The attacks were noticed by the local media.[15][16]

The group also carried out DDOS attacks against Poland's Internet infrastructure in different periods of time.[17]

A cyber attack on the website of the Finnish Parliament occurred after Finland joined NATO on April 4, 2023.[18][19] Finnish journalists ranked the group as pro-Russian.[20]

As a result of the incident, the Finnish criminal police launched a preliminary investigation.[21]

During the 2023 presidential elections on January 13, 2023, the website of presidential candidate General Petr Pavel has been under a strong hacker attack since Friday morning. That's why it was not loading for some users, his election team said. It is said that the website faced a similarly strong attack throughout Wednesday. According to the operator, the attack was conducted from various IP addresses across Europe.[22] On March 24, 2023, there was a DDoS attack on the site of Prague Integrated Transport website about public transportation in Prague. The website for unavailable for several hours. The Noname057(16) claimed responsibility for the attack. Also, the website of Florenc Central Bus Station was also affected by this attack.[23]

Following the visit of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Kiev, in support of Ukraine's efforts in the ongoing conflict with Russia, a series of Italian companies' and institutions' were attacked[24][25] in February and March 2023.[26]

During the summit of the leaders of the Council of Europe in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 16 2023, the Noname057(16) group has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Icelandic governmental websites. [27]