Executive Summary

Police in Spain arrested a 16‑year‑old suspected of running the KillSec ransomware group, which has stolen data from organizations and threatened to publish it on a leak site unless victims paid. The arrest was part of a broader operation that seized the leak site and associated servers.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: The Hacker News - Published Date: 2026-10-01T16:55:57+00:00 - Category: threat-intel

Original Description: 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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