Kamyar Jahanrakhshan, a man born in Iran, was arrested by U.S. authorities for launching DDoS attacks and sending bomb and death threats.

Jahanrakhshan moved to the U.S. in 1991 and then obtained permanent citizenship in Canada in 1995. His targets were listed as Leagle.com, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Metro News Canada, the official website of the Canadian government, and others.

Because of two criminal cases, Jahanrakhshan was deported from Canada to the US in 2014. Once in America, he started contacting Leagle.com asking that they remove any mention of his past court decisions because they were harming his reputation.

The site refused the request. He then offered up $100. Again he was refused. With that refusal, he threatened the site with final warnings that he knew dangerous hackers and they should heed his warning.

After being ignored, he proceeded to launch a DDoS attack against the site. He posed as a member of Anonymous and sent them an email threatening continued attacks if they did not remove his record.

U.S. authorities found evidence of the email account as well as other emails threatening other DDoS extortions. Leagle.com bowed down to the threat and removed his past record and the DDoS attacks stopped.

Having achieved success with Leagle.com, he moved on to other sources that had published his criminal past. To add additional pressure, he also launched DDoS attacks on their advertisers.

The attacks fail to produce his aims, so he then started sending bomb threats to the companies and death threats to employees family members who worked for the targets.

The FBI arrested him and he now faces five years in jail and a possible fine of up to $250,000.

Source: Bleeping Computer