February 20, 2019 Facebook tracks users it thinks may harm its employees Threat makers are sometimes geolocated to determine how credible their threats are, as in, are they near enough to really attack? Naked Security
October 30, 2018 Alleged SWATter will plead guilty to dozens of serious new federal charges The long list of charges includes bank fraud, involuntary manslaughter, cyberstalking and wire fraud. Naked Security
December 31, 2017 Alleged “Call of Duty” swatter arrested in LA after fatal shooting What apparently started as a $1.50 bet on "Call of Duty" and turned into a Twitter argument ended up in an innocent man's death. Naked Security
July 15, 2016 Serial swatter, stalker and doxer Mir Islam given 2 years prison He and his conspirators did it to "entertain" themselves, for revenge, and to punish conduct they didn't like. Naked Security
August 12, 2015 FBI catches swatter who said “you can’t catch a hacker” A Texan teenager has pleaded guilty to one count of threats to kill, after an investigation by the FBI pinpointed him as the source of several hoax bomb threats and "swatting" calls to police in Minnesota, Ohio and Massachusetts. Naked Security