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

Tony40

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 administrator and main operator, Hamburg police said on October 1. Police and prosecutors in Hamburg, Germany, led the operation.

The Guardia Civil and the Mossos d'Esquadra, both Spanish police forces, detained him in Alicante and searched a home and an office at a hotel in the province. Their joint statement, carried by elperiodic.com, calls him one of the group's administrators and its presumed main administrator.

The other 2 people arrested are in their 20s, one in the U.K. and one in Romania, a spokesperson for Europol, the European Union's police agency, told Reuters.

U.S. prosecutors in Puerto Rico and the FBI's San Juan office took part in the operation. Puerto Rico has filed an extradition request for the man arrested in the U.K., the Europol ....

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nghialele

Well done kiddo, very talented, good job.

Now eat it.

TimboJones

@nghialele said:
Well done kiddo, very talented, good job.

Now eat it.

I think it's more, "suck it" for the next decade?

forest

@Tony40 said: accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid.

Asshole. Imagine having some skills and instead of leaking government info or exposing human rights abuses, just using it to make a quick buck by extorting random organizations.

rpqu

@forest said:

@Tony40 said: accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid.

Asshole. Imagine having some skills and instead of leaking government info or exposing human rights abuses, just using it to make a quick buck by extorting random organizations.

Some guys doesn't want to turn the world into supreme chaos

FlorinMarian

proud to be Romanian

Hotmarer

@Calin are you there or do we need to send you soap to prison?

TimboJones

@forest said:

@Tony40 said: accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid.

Asshole. Imagine having some skills and instead of leaking government info or exposing human rights abuses, just using it to make a quick buck by extorting random organizations.

The ones that do that to hospitals need to be found globally and drawn and quartered publicly.