The Daily Beast news website revealed the name of the young American-Israeli, a resident of Ashkelon, who sent bomb threats to more than 100 Jewish institutions since the beginning of the year.
The website also revealed how the suspect was captured by the Israel Police's cyber units in cooperation with FBI representatives who came to Israel, as well as other police organizations from around the world.
According to the report - which was reported on Channel 7 - in order to disguise his identity, the 19-year-old suspect used a technology known as SpoofCard, which hides the identity of the caller via telephone.
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The police went to court and forced SpoofCard's parent company to report the real number behind the threatening calls, but this step was also ineffective.
It turned out that the calls were made from a disposable Google Voice number.
He paid for the SpoofCard using Bitcoin, which is also untraceable. He routed his Internet connection through a proxy server, so that his IP address could not be traced, and he disguised his voice so that it sounded like a woman's.
But then came the moment of "fall": In one of the threats he sent, the suspect forgot to use a proxy server, and thus his IP address was exposed. This address led to his home, where he was arrested in a police raid on Thursday.
During the search of his home, investigators also located a WI-FI antenna outside his window.
