{"id":52608,"date":"2023-07-04T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/34767\/FBI-Finally-Track-Swatting-Incidents-As-Attacks-Increase.html"},"modified":"2023-07-04T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:18:29","slug":"fbi-finally-track-swatting-incidents-as-attacks-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/fbi-finally-track-swatting-incidents-as-attacks-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Finally Track Swatting Incidents As Attacks Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-1136245690-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"FBI finally tracks \u201cswatting\u201d incidents as attacks increase nationwide\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\"> <a class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/06\/fbi-finally-tracks-swatting-incidents-as-attacks-increase-nationwide\/?comments=1\"> <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"comment-count-before\">reader comments<\/h4>\n<p> <span class=\"comment-count-number\">173<\/span> <span class=\"visually-hidden\"> with <\/span> <\/a> <\/aside>\n<p> <!-- cache hit 227:single\/related:d5031e321520d1b30d2c91abccbdd30b --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the FBI created a national online database to finally start coordinating law enforcement reports about &#8220;swatting&#8221; attacks nationwide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/fbi-formed-national-database-track-prevent-swatting-rcna91722\">NBC News reported<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Swatting is a form of domestic terrorism that is <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2019\/03\/man-gets-20-years-for-deadly-swatting-hoax\/\">sometimes deadly<\/a> and has become more widespread in the US, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/magazine\/co\/2023\/03\/10058781\/1Ldkevf1sJy\">March report<\/a> from Hal Berghel, a computer science professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Berghel&#8217;s report defined swatting as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A malicious act that involves making fraudulent 911 calls to cause emergency response teams, such as law enforcement special weapons and tactics teams, or SWAT teams (that\u2019s where the gerund\u2019s root comes from), to react forcefully to a nonexistent public threat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott Schubert, of the FBI&#8217;s Criminal Justice Information Services, told NBC News that the database will help combat the growing swatting problem by facilitating &#8220;information sharing between hundreds of police departments and law enforcement agencies across the country pertaining to swatting incidents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On college campuses, swatting is notably increasing. Nine campuses across the US were targeted by swatting attacks in a single week in April, NBC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Swatting has become so common, Berghel wrote, that several subclasses have already been defined, including <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/02\/one-possibly-fake-mit-shooter-and-the-troubling-trend-of-swatting\/\">celebrity swatting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/05\/gamers-involved-in-decembers-swatting-death-just-got-indicted\/\">gamer swatting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/08\/vpn-computer-voices-behind-two-swatting-attempts-on-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\">partisan swatting<\/a> (directed against politicians), and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/08\/deadly-swatting-increasing-on-twitch-alarmed-streamers-press-for-change\/\">hate swatting<\/a>. The FBI&#8217;s database will help to unify law enforcement efforts to combat the problem nationwide, Schubert told NBC News, by piecing together a &#8220;common operating picture of what\u2019s going on across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berghel wrote that &#8220;by everyone&#8217;s estimate,&#8221; swatting is on the rise, but until now, law enforcement has not officially tracked swatting incidents, because law enforcement does not track swatting as a separate category of crime and there is no federal swatting law. Instead, swatting statistics get absorbed as cases are prosecuted &#8220;under other statutes dealing with fraud, civil rights, hate crimes, the national defense, and so on,&#8221; Berghel wrote.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\"> <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span> <\/aside>\n<p>While there are no official statistics on swatting now, a former FBI swatting expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2019\/01\/12\/swatting-could-become-a-federal-crime\">told the Economist<\/a> in 2019 that he estimated that &#8220;annual swatting incidents have climbed from roughly 400 in 2011 to more than 1,000&#8221; in 2019. More recently, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/2023-06\/Online-Hate-and-Harassmen-2023_0.pdf\">2023 survey<\/a> from a non-governmental organization dedicated to civil rights, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), found that while swatting may not be as common as other forms of online harassment\u2014like being the target of hate speech or doxxing\u2014teens (11 percent) report experiencing swatting more often than adults (2 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Ars could not immediately reach the FBI to confirm whether the online database will be used to generate official statistics moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re taking every step to monitor this national problem and help however we can,\u201d Schubert told NBC News.<\/p>\n<h2>Will the FBI database help stop swatting?<\/h2>\n<p>Experts aren\u2019t sure whether the FBI&#8217;s online database will actually help reverse the troubling swatting trend.<\/p>\n<p>ADL&#8217;s director of policy and impact, Lauren Krapf, told Ars that &#8220;it\u2019s good&#8221; to see the FBI take swatting &#8220;seriously,&#8221; because ADL&#8217;s most recent report showed that &#8220;people are experiencing serious online harassment and digital abuse at alarming\u2014and increasing\u2014rates.&#8221; However, ADL has &#8220;pushed for increased protections for targets of swatting&#8221; for years and advocates for legislation that could meaningfully reduce swatting.<\/p>\n<p>Berghel told Ars that he wasn&#8217;t necessarily confident that the FBI&#8217;s database would help address the problem of swatting, either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My initial reaction to the proposed FBI database plan is that I would feel more confident if this matter were given to the FBI profilers than data engineers, law enforcement investigators, and ultimately, politicians,&#8221; Berghel said.<\/p>\n<p>Berghel told Ars that it&#8217;s common for &#8220;big government\u2019s solutions to computing crimes&#8221; to be &#8220;reactive and retributive\u2014rather than solving problems at the source.\u201d This, Berghel said, often leads to ineffective or counterproductive laws crafted by politicians who react to a problem like swatting before fully understanding it.<\/p>\n<p>To disincentivize people from launching swatting attacks, Berghel said that mental health professionals are needed more than laws threatening heavy fines or prison time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to 911 swatting, the most important questions of our age is, &#8216;Why are 911 swatters engaging in this behavior?&#8217; and &#8216;How can society deal with it?&#8217;\u201d Berghel told Ars.<\/p>\n<p>To help answer these questions, the &#8220;greatest benefit&#8221; from creating the FBI database could be granting access not just to lawmakers and law enforcement but also mental health professionals, Berghel suggested.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a 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