Spanish authorities have arrested 4 alleged members of a hacktivist group believed to have carried out cyberattacks focusing on authorities ministries, political events, and varied public establishments.
The group, which referred to as itself “Nameless Fénix” and claimed they have been affiliated with the Nameless hacker collective, performed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assaults towards targets in Spain and a number of other South American international locations, in response to the Spanish Civil Guard.
The primary assaults occurred in April 2023 and peaked after the flash floods that struck Valencia in late October 2024, when the group’s members attacked a number of authorities web sites, claiming Spanish authorities have been accountable for the deaths and destruction attributable to the storm.
Nameless Fénix additionally used X and Telegram to unfold anti-government messaging and recruit volunteers for its campaigns.
“From September 2024 they elevated their exercise and initiated a marketing campaign of recruitment of volunteers with the goal of perpetrating cyberattacks towards related domains,” the Spanish Civil Guard mentioned over the weekend.
“They reached their peak after the DANA of Valencia once they managed to efficiently assault completely different web sites of the Public Administration, justifying that they have been ‘the accountable for the tragedy.'”
The Civil Guard arrested the group’s administrator and moderator in Could 2025, in Alcalá de Henares, close to Madrid, and Oviedo, within the northern area of Asturias. After analyzing the proof collected following these arrests, investigators recognized two further members of the group as its most energetic operatives, who have been arrested earlier this month in Ibiza and Móstoles, close to Madrid.
Following the arrests, Spanish courts additionally ordered the seizure of the group’s accounts on X and YouTube and ordered the closure of its Telegram channel. No particulars on particular costs or potential penalties have been supplied within the Civil Guard’s announcement.
In latest months, Spanish authorities additionally detained a 19-year-old suspect in Barcelona for allegedly breaching 9 corporations and dismantled the “GXC Staff” crime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that pushed AI-powered phishing kits, Android malware, and voice-scam instruments.
Extra just lately, in January, the Spanish Nationwide Police arrested 34 suspects linked to a prison community concerned in cyber fraud and believed to be linked to the Black Axe crime ring.
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