HACKER HUNT GOES GLOBAL

There was a sharp increase in bomb threat incidents on Thursday with airlines receiving more than 85 new calls.

- Ashish Singh

These targeted major airlines, including 20 flights each from Air India, IndiGo, and Vistara, along with 13 Akasa flights, 5 SpiceJet flights, and 5 Alliance Air flights.

So far over 190 cases have been reported in mid-October. Security agencies have discovered that several of these threats were routed through masked VPNs, with IP addresses traced to locations in London, Germany, and ultimately France. According to the sources, Indian authorities are now coordinating with French security agencies to get to the bottom of it.

Officials suspect they are dealing with a complex group of hackers, operating as a shadow organization inspired by conspiracy theories such as those related to the Illuminati, a secret group, by creating an aura of mystery or power to intimidate their targets.