Not only has confidential data of the Civil Guard and the Ministry of Defense obtained. The young hacker identified this February has also attacked NATO systems, from the US army and other international entities.
Not only has confidential data of the Civil Guard and the Ministry of Defense obtained. The young hacker identified this February has also attacked NATO systems, from the US army and other international entities.
If the accusations were confirmed, we would be talking about a computer prodigy with an intriguing future. With only 18 years, an alleged hacker has been arrested by the police in Calpe, Alicante, accused of perpetrating up to 40 attacks against maximum relevance objectives at international level, many of them only in 2024.
The authorities began investigating the alleged cybercriminal since the beginning of 2024, after a Madrid business association denounced having suffered a data filtration in a forum of the Deep Web, Breachforums, where it merchants with stolen information. He used up to three different pseudonyms, one of them Natohub. After stopping him, he has been released with a passport withdrawal, to prevent him from leaving the country.
In a raid in your home, many technological devices and up to 50 cryptocurrency portfolios with different digital assets have been found. According to the statement issued by the National Police, the investigated has “deep knowledge of computer science”, and had managed to “configure a complex technological framework through the use of anonymous messaging and navigation applications through which she would have managed to hide her trace and hinder like this its identification ».
Impressive history
Thus, the Police believe that the young man is responsible for attacks on a multitude of national and international organizations, among which are companies, universities, and Spanish institutions such as the National Currency and Timbre Factory and the Ministry of Education. The complete list of attacks attributed to it is as follows:
- The Civil Guard.
- The Ministry of Defense.
- The General Directorate of Traffic.
- The International Civil Aviation Organization (United Nations).
- The National Currency and Timbre Factory.
- The Ministry of Education, Professional Training and Sports.
- The Generalitat Valenciana.
- Several Spanish universities.
- NATO databases.
- US Army databases.
- Other international companies and entities.
Natahub would have attacked these entities and obtained personal information from employees and clients, as well as internal documents that he later sold or published freely in forums of the Deep Web.
In the specific case of the attack on NATO, it is believed that the hacker violated the organization servers in June 2024, how much NatoHub said the NATO cooperation portal claimed to obtain data from 362 members.
Coordinated research
Before the surprising history of alleged crimes that the hacker accumulates, to which more positions could be added, there have been several organizations that have contributed to their arrest. The Spanish Police and Civil Guard also had the help of the Europol and the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) of the United States. .
