Spanish authorities have arrested 4 alleged members of a hacktivist group believed to have carried out cyberattacks concentrating on authorities ministries, political events, and varied public establishments.
The group, which referred to as itself “Nameless Fénix” and claimed they had been affiliated with the Nameless hacker collective, performed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assaults in opposition to targets in Spain and a number of other South American nations, in line with 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 had been liable 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 in opposition to 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 totally different web sites of the Public Administration, justifying that they had been ‘the liable for the tragedy.'”
The Civil Guard arrested the group’s administrator and moderator in Might 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 extra members of the group as its most lively operatives, who had 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 fees or potential penalties had been offered within the Civil Guard’s announcement.
In latest months, Spanish authorities additionally detained a 19-year-old suspect in Barcelona for allegedly breaching 9 firms and dismantled the “GXC Workforce” crime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that pushed AI-powered phishing kits, Android malware, and voice-scam instruments.
Extra not too long ago, in January, the Spanish Nationwide Police arrested 34 suspects linked to a felony community concerned in cyber fraud and believed to be related to the Black Axe crime ring.
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