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Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

February 13, 2019 admin 7R1D3n7, Apophis Squad, BlankMediaGames, George Duke-Cohan, HDGZero, Ne'er-Do-Well News, opt1cz, Pl3xl3t, protonmail, Timothy Dalton Vaughn, Town of Salem breach, WantedByFeds, Xavier Farbel, xavierfarbel@gmail.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:37:06 +0000

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked.

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Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years

December 7, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Apophis Squad, ddos-for-hire, George Duke-Cohan, Ne'er-Do-Well News, protonmail

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 01:38:49 +0000

The alleged ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched debilitating denial-of-service attacks against Web sites (including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions) has been sentenced to three years in a U.K. prison, and faces the possibility of additional charges from U.S.-based law enforcement officials.