New Zealand schools hit by bomb threats in suspected overseas ‘cyberbot’ attack

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New Zealand schools hit by bomb threats in suspected overseas ‘cyberbot’ attack
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More than a dozen schools forced to lock down or evacuate in scenes reminiscent of 2016 when more than 30 schools were affected

At least a dozen schools acrossreceived bomb threats on Thursday, in what some schools believed could be an overseas “cyberbot” attack.

At least some of the threats are believed to be hoaxes, which schools say could be coordinated by an overseas “cyberbot”. In a similar incident in 2016, more than 30 schools across the country received calls that played a recorded message threatening live bombs on school grounds.she had spoken to secretary of education Iona Holsted. “The ministry has said that their understanding is that this was actually a cyberbot coming in from overseas,” she said.

“Police take threats of this nature extremely seriously and is making inquiries to determine the source of the calls,” it said.Awatapu College, in Palmerston North, said in a social media post: “The school has received a bomb threat. We are one of a number of schools in the region. Police believe the risk is very low but in abundance of caution we have made the decision to evacuate the school.”

“We weren’t given a location within the grounds, we weren’t given a time,” Yeatman said. “At the end of the day it is a bomb threat so we can’t sit back and ignore it and think everything will be fine. We have to take them seriously.”

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