swatting

A teenage gamer in Virginia is said to be involved in the recent spate of bomb threats at colleges and universities in the tri-state area, sources familiar with the investigation told NBC New York.

Leaders of a neo-Nazi group have been arrested and charged in a pair of federal investigations with conspiring to harass journalists, churches and a former Cabinet official with phony bomb threats and other forms of intimidation

A man is accused of making 911 calls to report a fake crime in progress that prompted a major police response — also known as “swatting”— last year in west suburban Wheaton.

The sudden arrival of unneeded law enforcement officers can be defused quickly, but at worst, it can result in injury or death.

Anyone with a grudge and someone’s address can make a ‘swatting’ call, but what was once a niche prank played by gamers has become a favored means of terrorizing famous, controversial and vulnerable people, NBC News reports. It has also become more organized in recent years, with online forums and chat rooms dedicated to targeted attacks on individuals, including...

Four months after a massive hoax where Northwestern University students were led to believe there was an active shooter on campus, investigators say they have determined that the entire episode was targeted at a video gamer with 100,000 online followers.

Federal prosecutors indicted Wednesday two online gamers and the California man accused of making the hoax calls that led a police officer to fatally shoot an unarmed man in Kansas.

The family of a Kansas man fatally shot at the door of his home after a hoax emergency call wants the police officer who killed him criminally charged for his death, their attorney said Tuesday.

Authorities believe a Los Angeles man who was arrested in connection with a deadly swatting incident may be connected to as many as 20 swatting incidents across Southern California. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.

The Riverside, California, home of a teen behind the “Damn, Daniel” viral video was the target of an early morning “swatting” hoax, police say.

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