Last Tuesday, agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard moved stealth through the streets of Calpe, in Alicante, until the domicile of the alleged responsible for tens of High Profile cyberbrains. THE LIST OF OBJECTIVES released by the authorities in a press release It includes institutions and organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United States Army and the National Currency and Timbre Factory.
During the registration, which materialized after months of previous research, cryptocurrencies and a variety of computer devices that are already being analyzed by the specialists were intervened. The name and age of the suspect have not been announced by the official roads, but police sources They have told the 20 minutes newspapers and the avant -garde that it is an 18 -year -old man who used to hide his true identity under the pseudonym “Natohub”.
An attacker that aimed the institutions
The detainee is accused of several crimes, including discovery and revelation of secrets, illicit access to computer systems, computer damage and money laundering. The National Police investigation started last year, after the complaint of a Madrid business association which detected in a cybercrime forum to someone who claimed to have stolen information from their website. In the system, the attacker had left a sign as proof of intrusion.
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According to the authorities, the investigated continued with criminal activity, focusing on international organizations and government organizations. Thus, among its victims was the National Currency and Timbre Factory, the Public State Employment Service, the Ministry of Education, Professional Training and Sports, different Spanish universities, the United States Army, the General Directorate of Traffic, the Directorate General of Traffic, and the Generalitat Valenciana.
The suspect, in the custody of the agents | Photo: National Police
Natahub, they explain, changed pseudonym frequently to avoid being tracked, but it was possible to follow its track on the Dark Web, an area where all kinds of illegal content are shared. There he claimed to have a NATO database And he claimed attacks against the Generalitat Valenciana, the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the Ministry of Defense and one of the Spanish security forces that participated in its persecution, the Civil Guard.
The operation was developed with the collaboration of the National Cryptological Center (CCN) of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) in Spain. In the international arena, Europol and the United States Investigations (HSI) of the United States were involved. Now, the detainee is no longer behind bars. According to sources that spoke with reasonthe case entered into the orbit of the Court number 1 of Alicante, which left him provisional, although with the withdrawal of his passport.
We will have to wait to see how the case evolves, especially because of the possible evidence that can be found in the intervened devices.
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