June 29, 2020

Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison

Kenneth Schuchman, the creator of the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices, will be spending 13 months behind bars.

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January 27, 2020

Instagram CEO’s homes were targetted by SWATters

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri's houses were surrounded by SWAT teams after hoax phone calls claimed hostages were being held there.

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September 18, 2019

Teenage gamer jailed over lethal swatting

Casey Viner got into a spat over a $1.50 wager in a Call of Duty World War II game that led to the fatal shooting of an innocent man.

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September 05, 2019

Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.

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August 14, 2019

Fortnite World Cup champion and family swatted while live streaming

"They come in with guns, bro. They literally pulled up, holy sh*t."

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January 14, 2019

Facebook exec gets SWATted

The imposter claimed to be the Facebook exec and said he'd shot his wife, tied up his kids and planted pipe bombs “all over the place.”

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December 11, 2018

Teen SWATter who had 400 schools evacuated lands 3 years in jail

George Duke-Cohan is the British teen who posed as a worried father whose daughter had called him mid-flight during a hijacking.

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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.

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October 29, 2018

Call of Duty players caught up in cryptocurrency theft racket

The FBI recently busted a group of criminals who seem to be using Call of Duty to coordinate cryptocurrency thefts.

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