TLDR InfoSec · MISCELLANEOUS
POLICE ARREST 16-YEAR-OLD SUSPECTED OF RUNNING KILLSEC, SEIZE RANSOMWARE LEAK SITE AND SERVERS
Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter
Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old in Alicante, suspected of administering KillSec. Operations across Spain, Greece, the UK, and Romania seized its leak site, five domains, five servers, and at least 110 TB of data. Investigators link KillSec to about 1,000 suspected attacks, including 500 confirmed compromises.