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๐Ÿ“… 02 October 2026 at 12:30 AM UTC

Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers

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Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site. Investigators identified him as KillSec's suspected

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