The sources said, around seven to eight social media handles, majority of them on X, have been suspended or blocked since Monday, when these hoax bomb and terror attack threats started coming to virtually all the airlines.The intelligence agencies have also found some common lines and words used in these fake threats like “bombs”, “explosive devices”, “this is not a joke”, “blood will spread everywhere”, and “you will all die” and “bomb rakhwa dia hai” (Hindi for bomb has been placed).The sources further said, that besides having cases registered about hoax calls, agencies have been directed to enhance ‘cyber patrolling’ on social media and the dark web to check such threats leading to grounding or diversion of the aircraft.Intelligence agencies started scratching the online surface to find the primary email registration and geographical locations of these threat-issuing handles and some of which have been found to be from overseas locations like England and Germany, the sources said, adding that they first asked ‘X’ to share the IP addresses from where all the posts were generated and requested them to deactivate all the accounts.All the information relating to these have also been shared with jurisdictional police departments, which are investigating the cases registered by them, the sources said.
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