Noname057(16)

NoName057(16) is a pro-Russian hacker group that first declared itself in March 2022 and claimed responsibility for cyber-attacks on Ukrainian, American and European government agencies, media, and private companies. It is regarded as an unorganized and free pro-Russian activist group seeking to attract attention in Western countries.

The first attacks claimed by the group in March 2022 were DDoS attacks targeting Ukraine news and media websites Zaxid and Fakty UA among others. Overall the motivations of the group appear to center around silencing organisations the group deem to be anti-Russian.

Activity

NoName057(16) operates using Telegram channels where they claim responsibility for their attacks, mock targets, make threats, and share educational content. They have used GitHub to host their DDoS tool website and associated repositories. The group has developed a DDoS tool named DDOSIA, which conducts denial-of-service attacks by repeatedly issuing network requests to target sites.

It is noteworthy that the threat actor appears to collaborate with other pro-Russian cyber collectives, such as Killnet and XakNet.

Ukrainian media employees received threatening letters from the NoName057(16) group. This was confirmed by the Ukrainian ex-Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova. OSINT researcher Cyberknow20 has included NoName057(16) in his summary table of hacker groups, which he periodically updates.
It is believed that their main enemy is a Spanish hacker known as Duna since he has exposed them on many occasions.
This group, together with agents of the Russian FSB, is attributed with the attempted murder of Duna on at least four occasions.

Motivation

On the Telegram channel of the group a "Manifesto" was posted 11/03/2022.

The English translation reads:

''Greetings, comrades! Hacker group NoName057(16) goes out on the warpath with Ukrainian sub-hackers and their corrupt servants! These admirers of the neo-fascists, who have seized power in Ukraine, are trying to attack the Internet resources of our country and intimidate our compatriots with their attacks orchestrated through the social networks and other communication channels. In response to their pathetic efforts, we are conducting massive attacks on Ukropropaganda resources that brazenly lie to people about Russia's special operation in Ukraine, as well as on the websites of Ukrainian grief-hackers who try to support the neo-Nazi regime of Zelensky and a handful of drug addicts and Nazis from his mob! We have already conducted several successful attacks on Ukrainian resources, which have paralyzed users’ access to them. And this is just the beginning. To our enemies, we want to remind the words of the famous Russian commander Alexander Nevsky: “Whoever comes to us with a sword will perish by the sword!" Here we will talk about our cases and conducted attacks.''

Known DDOS attacks

Canada

On September 13, 2023, the NoName057(16) group has launched a DDoS attack on many Canadian and Quebec government websites. A total of 8 sites are attacked.

Ukrainian sites

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", the site "Odesa Online", the information agency "Competitor".

Baltic sites

Latvia

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). 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.

Lithuania

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".
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".
In particular, the group attacked the website of the Lithuanian company Ingstad, the websites of Lithuanian airports 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.

Estonia

On June 7, 2022, NoName057(16) carried out a cyberattack on the website of the Central Bank of Estonia. 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�
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United States

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.

Denmark

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 (Denmark)">Ministry of Finance