Spanish police arrest 16-year old leader of hacker group in Europe-wide probe
Europol said the gang carried out about 1,000 ransomware attacks in two years and obtained substantial ransom payments.
- On Oct 1, Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old Romanian national in Alicante suspected of being the administrator of KillSec, as part of a Europe-wide investigation into around 1,000 ransomware attacks.
- KillSec "exploited software vulnerabilities and poorly secured access points, particularly to cloud storage" to copy sensitive data, then threatened organizations with publication unless they paid ransom.
- Raids across Spain, Greece, Romania, and Britain yielded evidence and assets. Police arrested two additional suspects in their twenties, one in Britain and one in Romania.
- "The group obtained substantial ransom payments," a statement said. Puerto Rico filed an extradition request for the suspect arrested in Britain.
- Europol continues investigating the Europe-wide scope of the attacks while a fourth suspect—a developer who turned 18 in August—remains identified but not arrested.
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An international operation dismantled the infrastructure of the KillSec ransomware group, responsible for about a thousand attacks. The main suspect operator is a young man of only 16 years of age. An international operation to combat cybercrime led to the dismantling of the infrastructure of the KillSec ransomware group, in an investigation involving about 1,000 computer attacks on [...]
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A 16-year-old was arrested this Wednesday in Alicante, Spain, during an international operation involving the FBI and Europol. He is suspected of leading "KillSec", a group of hackers who have...
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