Teenage hacker admits making hoax bomb threats against schools and airlines

British police have announced that they have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a series of hoax bomb threats and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

George Duke-Cohan (who goes by online aliases such as “7R1D3N7”, “DoubleParallax”, and “optcz1”) is also reported to be a member of the Apophis Squad hacking gang, which has launched denial-of-service attacks against secure email provider ProtonMail, and cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs.

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