Email Threat

Delhi Police arrests Mysuru man for sending over 1,100 hoax bomb threats

Delhi Police has arrested a man from Mysuru in Karnataka for allegedly sending more than 1,100 hoax bomb threats to schools, high courts and government offices across the country, officials said on Monday. The accused, identified as Srinivas Louis, 47, was apprehended from his rented accommodation on Saturday following a joint operation by Delhi Police and local police teams, the officials said. The arrest comes amid a recent spate of bomb threat messages being sent to the Delhi High Court, assembly and several educational and government institutions. Police said Louis is a postgraduate and a native of Bengaluru. He is currently unemployed and lives with his mother, a retired government employee. "Preliminary investigation suggests that he may have been under mental stress. During initial interrogation, the accused confessed to sending over 1,100 threat messages across the country via emails and other communication platforms," a senior officer said. Multiple FIRs had been register

Delhi Assembly receives bomb threat for second consecutive day, probe on

The Delhi Legislative Assembly received a fresh bomb threat via email on Wednesday, a day after the House received similar threats just hours before Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's scheduled budget presentation, officials said. According to sources, the latest email, sent in the early hours to the official email ID of the Assembly Speaker, alleged that bombs have been planted in the in the premises amid the ongoing assembly session. The sender also made several provocative assertions and references in the message, they said. The development comes a day after the Assembly received two threatening emails on Tuesday morning via an email to the assembly at 7:28 am, followed by another email sent to Speaker Vijender Gupta at 7:49 am, prompting a massive security drill ahead of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's scheduled budget presentation. Following the fresh threat, security agencies intensified checks in and around the Assembly premises. Bomb disposal squads, dog squads and local police team

Delhi Assembly receives bomb threat ahead of presentation of budget

Hours before Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's scheduled budget presentation at 11:30 am on Tuesday, the Delhi Legislative Assembly received a bomb threat, official sources said. The threat was received via an email to the assembly at 7:28 am, followed by another email sent to Speaker Vijender Gupta at 7:49 am. Soon after the bomb threat, security forces rushed to the spot and began carrying out checks and launched an investigation. "We have heightened security arrangements in and around the premises," a police source said. The email reportedly referred to several high-profile dignitaries, including Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Cabinet Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa. Police and security agencies have launched a probe to trace the origin of the email, while thorough anti-sabotage checks are underway, the source added.

Union minister Jayant Chaudhary gets death threat, caller traced in Bengal

Union minister Jayant Chaudhary allegedly received a death threat from an unknown caller, following which a police complaint was lodged, an official said on Friday. Chaudhary, the minister of state (Independent Charge) of skill development and entrepreneurship, received the threat call from an unidentified number on Thursday, prompting an immediate review of his security, the official said. Police said the complaint was submitted on Chaudhary's behalf at Tughlak Road police station here and the matter is now under investigation. Efforts are being made to trace the origin of the call and identify the caller, they said.

5 schools in Gurugram receive bomb threat emails; nothing suspicious found

At least five private schools in Gurugram received bomb threat emails on Tuesday, but nothing suspicious was found during thorough checks carried out by authorities, officials said. Upon receiving information about threat mails, police rushed to the school premises. "The school premises were sanitised after detailed checks. Nothing suspicious was found," a Gurugram police spokesperson said over the phone, adding that further investigations are underway. Notably, several schools in Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh, have received similar bomb threat emails in recent months. However, all threats turned out to be hoaxes.

Odisha courts on high alert after receiving bomb threat via e-mail

Deputy Commissioner of Police Khilari Rishikesh Dnyandeo said that special bomb disposal squads, dog squads, and additional security teams have been mobilised

Hacker behind Star Health breach claims threats to India executives

The hacker behind Star Health's data breach says they sent bullets and threats to top executives over denied claims

Kapil Sharma, Rajpal Yadav, Remo D'Souza receive death threats, FIR filed

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13-year-old behind hoax threat mail to Delhi Airport, says did it 'for fun'

A 13-year-old boy in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, sent bomb threat email 'just for fun' after seeing media coverage of a similar incident

Mukesh Ambani receives fresh threats for ignoring previous demand

As per police, two threatening emails were received between October 31 and November and the sender introduced himself as Shadab Khan

G20 Summit: Govt offices on alert mode from 'misleading, counterfeit emails

Focussing with a header of "Scam alert", the warning pointed that "fake emails are in circulation impersonating CEO 14C"

50% of Indian firms victims of spear phishing in last 12 months, shows data

India has the highest number of suspicious emails per day, as per Barracuda Networks' 2023 Spear-phishing Trends report

Email marketing leader Mailchimp hacked, customers' data compromised

Email marketing leader Mailchimp has admitted it was hacked and at least 133 customers' data was exposed

Over 54 million users' data at risk via 3 popular email marketing apps

Three popular transactional and marketing email service providers -- Mailgun, MailChimp and Sendgrid -- have put data of more than 54 million mobile app users at risk, including from India

Security agencies on alert after bomb hoax via email at Mumbai airport

Security agencies have been put on alert after an email was received at the Mumbai international airport warning about a bomb on an IndiGo plane, police officials said

Accounts deceivable: Email scam costliest type of cybercrime, says report

Almost every enterprise is vulnerable to BEC scams, from Fortune 500 companies to small towns

Global cyber attacks surge 47% year-on year in H1 of CY2021: Trend Micro

In India, Trend Micro blocked 111,028 email spam, malicious URLs and malware

The only safe email is text-only email

Safe email is plain-text email; showing only the plain words of the message exactly as they arrived

Security beefed up in Kolkata airport after threat mail

After the threat that it would be blown up within 24 hours, luggage and cars of passengers are being checked