A group named NoName057(16), pictured with a Russian flag in its profile, posted on X, about its plans to target UK town halls, including in Greater Manchester.
It claimed to have hit the the Salford, Bury, Trafford and Tameside council websites this week with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, flooding the websites with internet traffic to put them out of use.
Salford, Bury and Trafford councils confirmed their web pages were temporarily affected by a cyber attack, but said they were now back online.
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