{"id":947324,"date":"2025-07-17T08:29:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947324"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:34:07","slug":"lost-in-dark-web-and-misled-by-vpn-delhi-police-struggle-to-trace-origin-of-bomb-threat-emails-to-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/17\/lost-in-dark-web-and-misled-by-vpn-delhi-police-struggle-to-trace-origin-of-bomb-threat-emails-to-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in dark web and misled by VPN, Delhi police struggle to trace origin of bomb threat emails to schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A fresh wave of bomb threats targeting schools and colleges has kept Delhi Police on its toes as many education institutes panicked for three days straight, with senior officers saying the emails were sent using encrypted networks, making them hard to track. <\/p>\n<p>Cyber experts of the Delhi Police and senior officers investigating the threats said the senders are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and the dark web. <\/p>\n<p>The dark web is a part of the Internet that is not indexed by traditional search engines and is accessible only through special browsers, allowing illegal activities such as cybercrime, human trafficking, and drugs and weapons trade to thrive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A fresh wave of bomb threats targeting schools and colleges has kept Delhi Police on its toes as many education institutes panicked for three days straight, with senior officers saying the emails were sent using encrypted networks, making them hard to track. Cyber experts of the Delhi Police and senior officers investigating the threats said the senders are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and the dark web. The dark web is a part of the Internet that is not indexed by traditional search engines and is accessible only through special browsers, allowing illegal activities such as cybercrime, human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}