Spanish police have arrested three men, suspected of being members of the notorious Anonymous online protest group.
The men, whose names have not been made public, were detained in Alicante, Almeria and Barcelona.
Spain’s Technological Investigation Brigade (BIT), the police unit who conducted the investigation, have held a live TV press conference about the arrests. According to BIT the men operated a cell of Anonymous, directing internet attacks against the likes of the Sony PlayStation store, and websites belonging to the governments of Egypt, Chile, Iran, Colombia, Algeria and Libya.
Fascinatingly, the authorities posted images on Twitter of IRC logs that appeared to show plans to attack Spanish police websites and the electoral board with a distributed denial-of-service attack.
Spanish police are also said to have seized a server hosted in the city of Gijon. No doubt the…
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