tagesschau, to random German
@tagesschau@ard.social avatar

Recherche zu Internet-Trollen: "Sie wollen Menschen kaputtmachen"

Eine Gruppe von Internet-Trollen begeht seit Jahren organisiert Angriffe auf Live-Streamer. Das belegen Recherchen von Kontraste und des Spiegel. Ein Datensatz zeigt: Die Gruppe "NWO" macht auch Jagd auf Politiker. Von D. Laufer.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/kontraste/internet-trolle-nwo-live-streamer-swatting-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#InternetTrolle #Swatting

KimPerales, (edited ) to random
@KimPerales@toad.social avatar

#TFG emboldens #swatting, inciting #deaththreats, bullying, witness intimidation... Mobster tactics have been normalized by Republicans bc they saw how TFG gained wealth & influence.

Tomlinson has refused to cave despite the ongoing threats to his life, & he & his wife suffering from PTSD & chronic insomnia.

Rather than relocating or going into hiding, he said he'd invested in a top-of-the line security system & bought a “small arsenal of weapons” to protect himself.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/swatting-nikki-haley-trump-fbi-b2492468.html

skry, to infosec
@skry@mastodon.social avatar

“As a result of Schumer's push, the FBI announced it would finally begin tracking swatting incidents nationwide. Hundreds of law enforcement agencies and police departments now rely on an FBI database to share information on #swatting incidents.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/cops-arrest-17-year-old-suspected-of-hundreds-of-swattings-nationwide/

#infosec

spocko, to random
@spocko@mastodon.online avatar

It's been over 3 weeks since the #SWATTING attempts against #JudgeChutkan #JackSmith & #JudgeEngoron but no arrests.
Hey @alanfeuer could you update this story?
Why is this not urgent?
Can there be charges of obstruction of justice as Glenn Kirschner has suggested? Witness tampering? Terrorism?

@emptywheel said on the @nicolesandler show we can expect more threats from the #MAGAts. Why can't these threats become a priority? Who benefits when they aren't? Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/politics/judge-tanya-chutkan-swatting-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk0.c0wH.0-ozE-tnaLYR&bgrp=g&smid=url-share

spocko, to random
@spocko@mastodon.online avatar

Good news!
17-year-old alleged ‘serial swatter’ charged

Alan Filion threatened a mass shooting at the Masjid Al Hayy Mosque in Sanford, Florida, in a May 2023 phone call to law enforcement. Police say he made threats throughout the country

In the article you'll see it took months to find him & charge him. He "created several accounts on websites offering swatting services and “various IP addresses connected to these accounts” led to his home address."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/us/teen-serial-swatter-charged-florida/index.html
#Swatting

jeffowski, to acab
@jeffowski@mastodon.world avatar
Nonilex, to random
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Nikki Haley targeted in '#swatting' incident at her home

Authorities responded to the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate #NikkiHaley last month after a man claimed to have shot a woman & threatened to harm himself at her home, acc/to town records obtained by Reuters.

#PoliticalViolence #RightWingExtremism #MAGA #Terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-presidential-candidate-nikki-haley-targeted-swatting-incident-2024-01-27/

SteveThompson, to Florida
@SteveThompson@mastodon.social avatar

"Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks"

https://www.wired.com/story/torswats-swatting-arrest/

"A California teenager who allegedly used the handle Torswats to carry out a nationwide swatting campaign is being extradited to Florida to face felony charges, WIRED has learned."

#swatting #Torswats #Florida #press

jeffowski, to random
@jeffowski@mastodon.world avatar

The fact that Trump supporters have resorted to #SWATTING the Trump Prosecutors and Judges is proof that they are losing.
The more desperate they get, the more ridiculous it will become.
Shows you that even the Trumpers are starting to see that he's going down.
#MAGA

kegill, to random
@kegill@mastodon.social avatar

Dear @AP and every other news organization.

#Swatting is NOT a "prank" so stop characterizing it as such.

A prank is "a practical joke or mischievous act" (Oxford)

Swatting is neither.

It is filing a false emergency (911) report with the goal of having armed cops (SWAT team) descend upon an address.

It is criminal.

Tengrain, to random
@Tengrain@mastodon.social avatar

Is there any doubt that the Republican Party is no longer a political operation, but instead has moved into domestic terrorism in support of ?

I predict that there will come a day in the not-too-distant future when the is referred to in the same breath as any other international terrorist organization.

Y’all Qaeda

wdlindsy, to random
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"Swatting increases in a declining democracy because it is what chaos agents do: it is the equivalent of the information warfare tactic of 'flooding the zone with shit,' to quote Steve Bannon."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#swatting #violence #threats #democracy #ChaosAgents #chaos
/1

https://lucid.substack.com/p/swatting-is-a-sign-of-declining-democracy

bikejourno, to random German
@bikejourno@mastodon.cloud avatar

Here's the scum taking things even one step further than political criminal and mobster Roger Stone: A call against special counsel on , do these deplorable bastards have any decency left?
Swatting calls have seen deadly endings in the past repeatedly as in the US the police tends to soot first and ask after. So I would rate this as an attack on Smith's life, not just his privacy and his christmas celebration.

https://thehill.com/homenews/4397405-special-counsel-jack-smith-targeted-swatting/

spocko, to random
@spocko@mastodon.online avatar

Did you know you can order a #SWATTING attack on your high school for just $75?
It's called SWATTING as a Service and it's been available for months.
Here's a great piece on it by @josephcox @VICE https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8be/torswats-computer-generated-ai-voice-swatting
I talked about how Judge #TanyaChutkan was #SWATTED on the @nicolesandler show why it's NOT a federal felony, how the RW uses threats & what can be done to protect the community from threats.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/AsVYzHo9LSk?si=wwz3qHwxEZ0GT2QF&t=3016
#uspol #SaaS

video/mp4

GottaLaff, to Florida
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

1-8-24 Nicole Sandler Show – 21st Century Political Surrealism

https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/2f2d8f0e-1bb9-4f73-8a8a-fd15513e8667.mp3

I couldn't think of a better term to describe the very strange circumstances in which we're living as the year 2024 gets off to a strange and frightening start.
We have no guest today, just lots of ne
https://nicolesandler.com/1-8-24/
#NicolesBlog #Biden #Florida #news #swatting #transgender #Trump

spocko, to maine
@spocko@mastodon.online avatar

was a victim of last night.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/tanya-chutkan-judge-overseeing-trumps-federal-election-interference-ca-rcna132856
Last week, after ruling should be off the ballot in , Secretary of State was
Glenn Kirschner tied these latest threats to Trump, an indicted felon pending trial. To PROTECT the COMMUNITY Trump's release should be revoked & he should be put in pretrial detention.

Glenn Kirschner on the SWATTING of the MAINE Secretary of State

spocko, to maine
@spocko@mastodon.online avatar

Last week #Maine Secretary of State #Bellows & #GeorgeSoros were victims of #SWATTING attacks.
Barely a blip in the news, But over the holidays Republicans #MarjorieTaylorGreene #RickScott & Ohio AG #DaveYost were victims of #SWATTING attacks, so NOW GOP legislators want to pass a federal law.
GOOD!

Now the MSM can run "Both Sides DO IT" stories.
What's really driving the increase? Swatting As A Service
(SAAS) Read about it in this great article by @josephcox
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8be/torswats-computer-generated-ai-voice-swatting

MisuseCase, to random
@MisuseCase@twit.social avatar

There have been a lot of #swatting attacks on Republicans in the news lately and while this sort of thing couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people I think we need to talk about what is wrong with the police as an institution (as a concept even) that it’s so easily possible to basically use them as a mayhem-and-death squad, and they don’t care to fix the issue of being easily used as a mayhem-and-death squad.

dukepaaron, to Israel
@dukepaaron@babka.social avatar

What do Alabama, Missouri, Colorado, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Michigan, Georgia, California, Connecticut, Arizona, Washington, and Maine have in common?

Can't guess?

Are you sure?

Ok here you go!

These are all states where a combined total of more than 200 #swatting and #bomb #threats occurred at #synagogues across the US so far just this weekend.

Good times for the #Jews.

ThatWeltschmerz, to random
@ThatWeltschmerz@kolektiva.social avatar

From the press release:

A series of hoax swatting threats had been made over the summer targeting numerous religious, educational, and public institutions in the United States, to include Jewish synagogues and African American churches. The group suspected of perpetrating the hoaxes was known to have called in bomb threats and swatting attempts at Jewish facilities, including at least 25 synagogues in 13 states between July 2023 and August 2023.
"Swatting" is a term used to describe criminal activity by an individual or group who knowingly provides false information to police suggesting that a threat exists at a particular location so that police respond with tactical units, or what’s commonly known as a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force—in concert with law enforcement in Southern California and New York, as well as community organizations—compiled information that led to the identity of the individual believed to have created the server that hosted the suspected swatting network. The server that hosted that network, which has since been taken offline, included members who espoused extremist views, to include the glorification of highly publicized mass killers.
The suspect was arrested on the morning of December 12 by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and will be charged at the state level by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office with two of the local swatting hoaxes. The local swatting attempts occurred at synagogues in Tustin, California, and in Fullerton, California. The suspect’s name will not be released because the individual is a minor.
#antisemitism #racism #swatting

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/losangeles/news/juvenile-arrested-for-conducting-swatting-attacks-targeting-synagogues-and-other-institutions/layout_view

andrewbrandt, (edited ) to random
@andrewbrandt@toot.bldrweb.org avatar

This was a really hard video to watch. I literally got choked up.

A wave of #swatting attacks targeting high #schools around the country has been going on for at least a year. Authorities tracked the source back to a #VoIP service, who in turn figured out that the calls were probably originating in #Ethiopia. The same caller, speaking in heavily accented English. Each call followed a similar script. The caller triggered armed responses every single time.

#BVSD was called twice. I was on #lockdown for hours in #Boulder. This is no prank. It is straight up #terrorism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/04/school-swatting-hoax-active-shooter/

universalhub, to Massachusetts
@universalhub@mastodon.online avatar
itnewsbot, to medical
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

FBI finally tracks “swatting” incidents as attacks increase nationwide - Enlarge (credit: Roberto Machado Noa / Contributor | LightRocket)

... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1951389

Susan_Larson_TN, to politics
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online avatar
dgoldsmith, to random
@dgoldsmith@mastodon.social avatar

More on the SWAT attempt against @ErinInTheMorn:

Montana Transgender Rep. Zooey Zephyr’s Girlfriend Foils SWATting Attempt https://www.advocate.com/crime/zooey-zephyr-girlfriend-swatted

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