A 19-year-old hacker who sent 'send a bomb' mail to schools and airlines got the third arrest

by Wendelin Jacober

British police arrested a 19 - year - old hacker belonging to a famous hacker group. This man is a person who sent an e-mail saying "I blew a bomb" at a high school in the UK, and he is said to be the third arrest.

19-Year-Old Hacker Arrested Over Making Hoax School and Flight Bomb Threats
https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/cohan-hoax-bomb-threats.html

British Crime Investigation Agency British National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested George Duke Cohan on August 31, 2018. On 3 August 2018 to high schools and airlines in the United Kingdom and the United States "We set up a bomb in the building, we will blow up the building if we do not pay 5000 dollars (about 550,000 yen) within 3 hours" The main suspicion is the obstruction of power operation.

Kohan sent suspicious e-mails saying "We set explosives in school" to thousands of British schools in March 2018, resulting in the situation that more than 400 schools evacuate students I was arrested for the first time in April 2018. However, while investigations of this case were under way, Kohan sent 24,000 more false e-mails to British and American schools saying "We set up a pipe bomb in the premises" Although it was the second arrest, it was said that it was bailed on condition that electronic equipment is not used.

However, Kohan broke the pledge and informed San Francisco Airport and the police on August 9, 2018, "The passenger plane on which my daughter rides is hijacked by a man armed with guns, one of them bomb I have a false report pretending to be a father named "I have". As a result, the United Airlines 949 flying between the United Kingdom and San Francisco hijacked the evacuation measures, confusing 295 passengers and economically losing the airline. After all, Kohan seems to have been arrested for the third time with multiple electronic equipments at home.

by Kevin Severud

Blog posts that ProtonMail of e-mail service cooperated in the investigation of the case against Kohan's third arrest.

Apophis Squad member responsible for attacks against ProtonMail has been arrested - ProtonMail Blog
https://protonmail.com/blog/apophis-squad-arrest/

ProtonMail is undergoing a cyber attack from the hacker organization Apophis Squad and cooperating with the investigative agency to arrest the criminal while blocking the attack, the main members of Apophis Squad "7R1D3N7" "DoubleParallax" " It is said that he identified a hacker that uses aliases of optcz 1 differently. This person was Kohan, who seems to have arrested the arrest of the criminal who caused the United aircraft case in cooperation with ProtonMail. ProtonMail says, "Our service is firmly committed to defending user's privacy, security and information freedom, but it does not apply to those who do crime."

Kohan was arrested and is scheduled to be sentenced at the Luton Criminal Court on September 21, 2018.