KillSec leak site reportedly replaced by police seizure notice
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An international law-enforcement operation reportedly took over the KillSec ransomware group’s leak site and secured at least 110 TB of data, while three provisional arrests were announced.
Five core servers taken over after international raids
According to the report, German-led Operation KillSwitch followed coordinated raids on September 30 across Greece, Romania, Spain, and the UK. Authorities reportedly took over five servers used to manage KillSec’s activities and store victim data. The report says police suspect a 16-year-old was the group’s main operator, but does not establish that this person was among those arrested.
The available report does not establish a directly comparable earlier condition for KillSec’s infrastructure or leak site.
The report says Operation KillSwitch took control of KillSec’s leak site, replaced it with a police seizure notice, and seized five central servers. It also says authorities secured at least 110 TB of data against further unauthorized access and made three provisional arrests.
The 16-year-old’s connection to arrests remains unclear
The reported operation combines infrastructure seizure, control of a data-leak site, protection of data held there, and provisional arrests connected to a ransomware group linked to around 1,000 suspected attacks.
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- The RegisterTeen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest threeRead source →