As the article mentions, a lot of these threats were sent through email demanding bitcoin payment. There's a full example of one of the emails in this article:...
This caused a lot of chaos today. As the article mentions, Columbine had a major response to it, and many other schools evacuated or even closed for the day. I'm interested to see if anything major happens as a response to this, since obviously this made a huge mess even though it seems to have just been a pretty standard phishing-style scam.
As the article mentions, a lot of these threats were sent through email demanding bitcoin payment. There's a full example of one of the emails in this article: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/12/spammed-bomb-threat-hoax-demands-bitcoin/
This caused a lot of chaos today. As the article mentions, Columbine had a major response to it, and many other schools evacuated or even closed for the day. I'm interested to see if anything major happens as a response to this, since obviously this made a huge mess even though it seems to have just been a pretty standard phishing-style scam.