Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three

Police suspect a 16-year-old was the main operator of KillSec, a ransomware group linked to around 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide. Authorities announced on Thursday that an international operation had seized the group's infrastructure and made three provisional arrests. The German-led Operation KillSwitch replaced the crew's leak site with a police seizure notice. The available information is incredibly fragmented. Europol said the 16-year-old was "the group's suspected main operator," but did not explicitly say this person was arrested. Spanish police announced the arrest of a "minor," a Romanian national residing in Spain, but did not publicly link this arrest to the 16-year-old mentioned by Europol. The US Department of Justice (DoJ)...

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