This year’s Jewish center bomb threats were part of a dark web threat-for-hire business
Earlier this year, a string of bomb threats targeted more than 100 Jewish centers, causing daily chaos for local organizations and raising new concerns about anti-Semitic violence in the US. The spree came to an end when police arrested 19-year-old Israeli citizen Michael Kadar in connection with the threats, overcoming various anonymity measures to trace the calls. But new evidence suggests Kadar may have been making the calls on behalf of a third party, as part of a larger bomb-threat-for-hire business operating on the dark web.
In a recently unsealed search warrant (first surfaced by researcher Seamus Hughes), police sought access to Kadar’s AlphaBay accounts, where he appears to have operated the business. A public description of the...