Operation Eastwood
Europol-coordinated July 2025 takedown of pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16).
Operation Eastwood struck NoName057(16) in July 2025; ENISA's report of 22 September 2026 still credited the group with 48 per cent of politically driven attacks in 2025, while checks backed fewer than a quarter of its claims.
Last refreshed: 12 October 2026
Did taking down 100 servers stop NoName057(16)?
Timeline for Operation Eastwood
Mentioned in: ENISA finds most NoName057(16) claims fail
Cybersecurity: Threats and DefencesBackground
Operation Eastwood was the July 2025 police action, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, against NoName057(16), a pro-Russian hacktivist group. In its 22 September 2026 report, ENISA said Independent checks confirmed just 23.8 per cent of the outages NoName057(16) had claimed.
Reported Europol figures for the operation give more than 100 servers disrupted, two arrests, seven arrest warrants and 24 house searches. Germany issued six of those warrants, including two for suspected leaders living in Russia.
NoName057(16) had spent the previous years flooding websites in Ukraine and in countries that support it. The group recruited volunteers on Telegram and armed them with its DDoSia tool, so Operation Eastwood went after the servers that coordinated them as well as the people running the group.