Two Lanarkshire men arrested in cyber attack investigation
Dutch police, working with Police Scotland and other international authorities, seized servers and arrested individuals
Two men from Lanarkshire have been arrested as part of an international investigation into cyber attacks across the world.
The men were arrested in connection with offences under the Computer Misuse Act.
It's after the closure of a website linked to more than four million cyber attacks, including those targeting some of the UK's biggest banks.
Authorities in the Netherlands, Serbia, Croatia and Canada, with support from Police Scotland and Europol, targeted six members of the crime group behind webstresser.org on Tuesday.
Dutch police seized servers and took down the website at 11.30am on Wednesday.
National Crime Agency bosses say cyber criminals have used webstresser.org to launch more than four million "distributed denial of service'' (DDOS) attacks.
Arrests were made in Croatia, Canada and Serbia and Scotland.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "As part of an international operation involving law enforcement agencies across Europe, officers from Police Scotland Cybercrime Unit have arrested two males from the Lanarkshire area in connection with Computer Misuse Act offences.
"Investigations are ongoing and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."