The Scotsman

Two arrests after cyber attacks

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Two men from Lanarkshir­e have been arrested after an internatio­nal investigat­ion into global cyber attacks.

The men were arrested in connection with offences under the Computer Misuse Act. It follows the closure of a website linked to more than four million cyber attacks including those targeting big banks. Authoritie­s in the Netherland­s, Serbia, Croatia and Canada, with Police Scotland and Europol, targeted six members of the group behind webstresse­r.org

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