Member of Apophis Squad Cyberattack Group Arrested for Making Bomb Threats

The UK National Crime Agency announced that a 19-year old teenager named George Duke-Cohan from Hertfordshire has been arrested and pleaded guilty to making hoax bomb threats against 400 different schools and a United Airlines intercontinental flight.

Until his arrest, Duke-Cohan also known as “7R1D3N7,” “Optcz1” and “DoubleParallax” was a member of the Apophis Squad hacker group, very active on Twitter and known to brag about attacking several websites using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) techniques, with Protonmail.com and KrebsOnSecurity.com being the most known.

Among other online mischiefs, they also attacked government agencies from a multitude of countries, a fact that made them the target of multiple MLAT requests asking Protonmail to deliver assistance in catching them after Apophis Squad's members were exposed as also being Protonmail use... (read more)

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