An Anchorage man was arrested by police last week and will be charged in Pennsylvania for a dark web bomb threat at Lafayette College, which has caused panic in Easton. The FBI launched an investigation after a wave of panic, caused by a bomb threat posted on Twitter, spread on social media. Law enforcement conducted a warranted search at the ... Read More »
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U.S.-Israeli Man Sentenced to 10 years for Bomb and Shooting Threats for Bitcoins
Recently, a young Israeli-American man was sentenced to ten years in an Israel court for making over 2,000 bomb threats to different public facilities. The Jewish suspect was arrested by law enforcement in Israel back in March 2017. The suspect offered his services on dark web marketplaces to make hoax bomb threats for about $240,000 worth of Bitcoins. The threats ... Read More »
Man who Sent a Letter Bomb to a Bitcoin firm Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison
A Swedish man is set to spend the next six and a half years behind bars after he was found guilty of attempted murder on account of sending a letter bomb to a London based bitcoin firm. The police believe that the man sent the bomb to two employees of the bitcoin firm as a reaction to the firm’s failure ... Read More »
‘JCC hoax bomber’ Convicted in Serial Bomb Threat Case
At the Tel Aviv District Court, the 19-year-old responsible for sending more than 2,000 bomb threats to public buildings and institutions was convicted so far only for his numerous crimes committed as an adult. As the Jerusalem Post reported, the courts have not yet taken any action concerning the crimes committed as a minor. According to documents from the U.S. ... Read More »
Inmate Orders Mail Bomb on Darknet to Kill Ex-Wife
Two men have been convicted of attempted murder after purchasing mail bombs on the darkweb to kill an ex-wife. Michael Young Jr. 31, is serving a 50 year sentence for attempting to kill his ex-wife, and also, for murdering his father in law in 2007. Together with Vance Volious Jr. 36, an accomplice, they have been convicted of ordering explosive ... Read More »
FBI Uncover Dark Web Bomb Plot and Drugs Operation in a State Prison
How much harm or profitable businesses can a canny inmate-run on the outside while still tightly locked up in jail? Or better perhaps, what can he not do? People present at Columbia Court this week were brought to a shocking realization of just how much an inmate can do in possession of a contraband cell phone. As the proceedings progressed, ... Read More »
Teenager Arrested and Sentenced For Buying Bomb on Darknet to Kill Parents
Nineteen-year-old boy, Gurtej Singh Randhawa was arrested by the police for purchasing an explosive weapon on the Darknet marketplace with the intention of blasting his parents into pieces. Information gathered makes it clear that his parents were in strong disagreement with his move to start a relationship with a lady. He, therefore, marked them as a hindrance to his relationship ... Read More »
British Teen Bought Car Bomb from the Darknet
A 19-year-old British man from Wolverhampton was recently convicted of attempting to import explosives for the purpose of building a car bomb. Gurtej Randhawa was arrested in May of this year after picking up a package which was supposed to contain an explosive device capable of being remotely detonated. Officers from the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency’s Armed Operations Unit ... Read More »
Suspect linked to Bomb Threats offered Services on Dark Web
Reports coming from the U.S authorities have revealed that an American-Israeli teenager charged with making bomb threats to Jewish community centers as well as schools over the United States advertised his services on an online darknet marketplace which is no more and may even have had a customer. He was accused of a swell of bomb threats against over dozens ... Read More »
FBI Hacked Darknet Buyer Who Wanted To Purchase Mail Bomb
According to a plea agreement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation hacked a dark web user who tried to purchase a mail bomb from an undercover investigator in the United States. The plea agreement, filed on April 28, 2017, states that Clinton Scott Bass of Georgia in the SE United States, was using two different pseudo names, contacted an undercover police ... Read More »
US Charges Teenager for 100s of Fake Bomb Threats
An 18-year-old with both Israeli and United States citizenships made fake bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers throughout the world. Then, the teenager landed in the FBI investigative scope for a barrage of focused attacks in the United States. He made calls to JCCs in Florida and called in fake emergency information about Georgian residents. The 18-year-old (he is officially ... Read More »
Phony Bomb Threat Caller Sold Drugs on the Darknet
In early April, police arrested 19-year-old Michael Kaydar at his home in Ashkelon, Israel. Israel’s Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s’ Court remanded the 19-year-old Israeli-American hacker for the third time in part of a larger investigation. Court advised the man of conducting hundreds of fake bomb threat phone calls to Jewish institutions. The investigation took off once the hacker called Jewish Community ... Read More »
Dark Net Bomb Threats Shut Down Florida High School, One Minor Arrested
A 14-year-old who attended Buchholz High School was arrested in February for making fake bomb threats. He didn’t call in the threats himself, he actually said he used the dark net to pay for the threats to be issued. He was allegedly making threats on February 8th, 16th, and 18th. The judge decided as part of his sentence he was ... Read More »
FBI: Bomb Suspect Ryan Chamberlain Sought Toxins Via ‘Deep Web’ (BMR)
Video report – from this source: Info source sfexaminer.com: When the FBI searched the Russian Hill apartment of Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II on May 31, they were not looking for components of a bomb. They had hoped to find lethal toxins Chamberlain allegedly purchased on anonymous websites, part of the “darknet” or “deepweb,” using cybercurrency known as Bitcoin. They were ... Read More »