New Delhi, December 19
In the last nine days, more than 100 schools in Delhi have been in chaos due to fake emails about bomb blasts. It is worth noting that these threats have been coming for a long time which later turned out to be false. Although the police and other agencies are taking action to control the people behind these threats, there has been no major success so far.
Police and experts said VPNs and proxy servers are posing major hurdles in the legal framework to solve cases and retrieve information from these services. Due to which the investigation is delayed. During May this year, more than 50 bomb threat emails targeted not only Delhi schools but also hospitals, airports and airline companies. The police have not got any success in these cases so far.
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday also expressed concern over threats to schools and questioned the failure of the police to nab the accused. According to senior officials, Delhi Police has written to service providers like Google, VK (known as Mail.ru) and Outlook.com to get the senders’ IP addresses. In some cases, the police have also received answers, but they have not been able to trace the exact origin.
Delhi Police has also sought the help of Interpol through central agencies. Officials said that our investigation is going on. We are working to trace the origin of the sender. While their servers or domains have been traced to European or Middle Eastern countries, the true origin has not been confirmed, as the emails were sent using VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) or Proxy Servers.
A dedicated unit of the Delhi Police Special Cell has been assigned the task of investigating cases of threats.
“Tracking cyber threats requires technical expertise, real-time threat intelligence and international cooperation,” said Shashank Shekhar, co-founder of the Future Crime Research Foundation. News-Patiala
