FBI agents have arrested a 20-year-old man alleged to have been part of a hacking gang which not only launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but also launched a wave of bomb and shooting threats against thousands of schools in the United States and United Kingdom. Timothy Dalton Vaughn, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is alleged to be a member of the Apophis Squad, a group of self-styled hackers who have wrought chaos to businesses, institutions, and individuals across the internet during 2018.

Read full news article on Graham Cluley