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

The men were arrested on Tuesday in connection with offences under the Computer Misuse Act.

The arrests follo 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.

Arrests were made in Croatia, Canada and Serbia and Scotland.

National Crime Agency bosses say cyber criminals have used webstresser.org to launch more than four million distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks.

DDOS attacks send high volumes of internet traffic at target computers to disable them.

The website had more than 136,000 registered users and could be rented by people with little or no technical knowledge to cripple online services offered by government institutions, police forces and banks.

The National Crime Agency (NCA), which led the international probe, said its officers identified a "criminal infrastructure" in the Netherlands as part of an ongoing campaign against 'DDOS-for-hire' services.

Jo Goodall, a senior investigating officer on the force, said: "A significant criminal website has been shut down and the sophisticated crime group behind it stopped as a result of an international investigation involving law enforcement agencies from 11 countries. "

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."