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

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Summary by Cyber Security News1 Oct 2026, 18:55 CET

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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.

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