Spanish police have arrested a 16-year-old Romanian national in Alicante, suspected of being the administrator and main operator of the ransomware group KillSec. This operation, codenamed Operation KillSwitch and led by the Hamburg State Criminal Police Office, resulted in the seizure of at least 110 terabytes of stolen data and five central servers. A 25-year-old Dutch national residing in the UK, known by the handle Archduke, was indicted in Puerto Rico and arrested pending extradition. The group is believed responsible for approximately 500 successful attacks out of 1,000 attempted worldwide, with ransoms frequently demanded in cryptocurrency.
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