Collaborate Disseminate
A private school in Park Slope sent a letter to parents warning of an automated network sending threatening messages about a school shooter on social media. Continue reading Bot-Generated Shooting Threats Are Terrorizing Schools
He called in hoaxes days after the Manchester Arena bombing, DDoSed police sites when they investigated him, then taunted them on Twitter. Continue reading Police site DDoSer/bomb hoaxer caught after jeering on social media
Tampa’s mayor was trying to regain control of his Twitter account this week after it was used to post bomb threats and child sex abuse images. Continue reading Missile warning sent from hijacked Tampa mayor’s Twitter account
A bomb threat spam campaign that hit North America last month may have been engineered using a flaw in GoDaddy’s domain management process, it was revealed this week. Continue reading Bomb threat spam may stem from GoDaddy DNS weakness
Bogus bomb threats created a scare across the country. A quick note here that I’ll dive into more deeply next week. The big question at this time — with MANY of the IP addresses found in email headers originating from Moscow, Russia, is this “Russ… Continue reading Bogus Bomb Threats Demand Bitcoin Disrupt Businesses
“Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building”
A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats via emails that caused nationw… Continue reading Fake Bomb Threat Emails Demanding Bitcoins Sparked Chaos Across US, Canada
An email campaign is demanding large sums of money in return for not blowing up schools, banks and businesses. Continue reading Bomb Threat Bitcoin Demands Cause Disruption, Evacuations
Ryan S. Lin pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, distribution of child abuse imagery, hoax bomb threats, computer fraud and abuse, and ID theft. Continue reading Cyber tormentor leaves a trail that lands him 17.5 years
British police have arrested a 19-year-old teen who is an alleged member of Apophis Squad cybercriminal group responsible for making hoax bomb threats to thousands of schools and airlines; and DDoSing ProtonMail and Tutanota secure email services.
Geo… Continue reading 19-Year-Old Hacker Arrested Over Making Hoax School and Flight Bomb Threats
In Brief
US-based Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) agency is sponsoring a program to build portable laser sensors that could detect explosives, narcotics and other dangerous chemical weapons from 100 feet away.
Dubbed SILMARILS (Standoff Illuminator for Measuring Absorbance and Reflectance Infrared Light Signatures), the program aims to identify biological agents as
Continue reading Laser Gun to Detect Bombs and Chemical Weapons from 100 Feet Away