The Jerusalem Post reports: “Several synagogues across the United States were targeted with fake bomb threats around New Year’s day in order to extort congregations for ransoms to be paid through cryptocurrency addresses, according to information drawn from synagogues, Jewish community organizations, law enforcement, and local media.

At least six synagogues were targeted in similar incidents that according to Israeli crypto transaction monitoring company Nominis were similar to bomb threat hoaxes in 2018…”