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wrote that the bitcoin addresses associated with the bomb threats received only two transactions, both of which were under $ 1. He also wrote that the same group was behind an earlier
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On December 13, 2018, thousands of businesses, individuals, schools, news agencies, and other places throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia received emailed
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were evacuated after threats. The explosive stated to be used in the bomb, along with the Bitcoin address, varied between emails. Police departments in
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scheme which was more profitable, and that they started making new threats of throwing acid onto individual recipients.
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address to prevent the bomb from being detonated. Six schools in Australia's capital city
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2018 bomb threat incidents in the United States, Canada and Australia
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In January 2019, anti-spam researcher Ronald Guilmette found that a
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security weakness was exploited to help the spam campaign.
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Groch, Dan Jervis-Bardy, Sherryn (December 14, 2018).
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2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats
October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts
"Bitcoin Bomb Threat Emails Spark Evacuations Nationwide"
"Bomb threat forces school evacuations across Canberra"
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"Bitcoin scammers send bomb threats across US, causing evacuations"
"'Bomb threat' scammers are now threatening to throw acid on victims"
"Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com"
"Those bomb hoaxes last month? GoDaddy may have played unwitting role"
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