We highlight lessons learned from our experience dealing with swatting attacks and provide a case study in how Residential Security Teams can best handle them—even as the attackers adjust tactics to make their hoaxes appear more credible.
The target list posted to the Signal chat reportedly contained some 270 entities that spanned a wide array of sectors, including houses of worship, media outlets, financial firms, tech companies, defense contractors, government buildings, embassies, and migrant centers, among others. Other posts in the chat where the target list was posted reportedly called for bombing…