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  • Four arrested in crackdown on Discord-based SWATting and doxing Graham Cluley
    How badly do you want to win an online argument? I certainly hope it's not enough to put the life of the other person at risk. Police in Hungary and Romania have arrested four young men suspected of making hoax bomb threats and terrorising internet users through SWATting and doxing attacks. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
     
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Four arrested in crackdown on Discord-based SWATting and doxing

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Por:Graham Cluley
28 de Janeiro de 2026, 17:14
How badly do you want to win an online argument? I certainly hope it's not enough to put the life of the other person at risk. Police in Hungary and Romania have arrested four young men suspected of making hoax bomb threats and terrorising internet users through SWATting and doxing attacks. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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  • Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim Nate Anderson
    A teacher in high school once quoted an old proverb to me: "Do something you love, and you'll never work a day in your life!" Perhaps 18-year-old Alan Filion encountered a similar teacher during his school years in California, because once Filion learned that he truly loved making fake "swatting" calls to law enforcement—well, he turned the crime into a job, using handles like "Nazgul Swattings" and "Third Reich of Kiwiswats." Originally it was all about the "power trip," but it soon became abou
     
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Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim

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Por:Nate Anderson
12 de Fevereiro de 2025, 16:21

A teacher in high school once quoted an old proverb to me: "Do something you love, and you'll never work a day in your life!"

Perhaps 18-year-old Alan Filion encountered a similar teacher during his school years in California, because once Filion learned that he truly loved making fake "swatting" calls to law enforcement—well, he turned the crime into a job, using handles like "Nazgul Swattings" and "Third Reich of Kiwiswats." Originally it was all about the "power trip," but it soon became about "money and the power trip."

"Prices: $40-Gas leak/Fire for EMS/Fire/Gas Leak [$35 for returning customers]," Filion wrote in a 2023 advertisement that ran on various social media channels. "$50 for a major police response to the house [$40 for returning customers]; $75 for a bomb threat/mass shooting threat (they will shut down the school or public location for a day) [$60 for returning customers]. All swats will be done ASAP or present time."

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