Malicious actors are increasingly targeting schools with false reports of shootings, using the fear of gun violence and 911 calls to afflict terror about another potentially deadly incident, experts tell ABC News.
over the last decade, with criminals calling in threats on rival gamers or activists. Schools, however, have become frequent targets this year, multiple experts told ABC News. The number of swatting calls has at least doubled over the last year, according to James Turgal, the former chief information officer of the FBI and the current vice president of information security company Optiv.
Swatting calls attempt to mimic what a "victim" of a fabricated shooting would tell authorities, while bomb threats are commonly made from the perspective of the person who placed the fictional bomb. Canady said a person who planted a real bomb has little incentive to call in a threat to clear people from their target. At the same time, a shooting victim would try to immediately contact the police for assistance – complicating the perceived importance of these calls.
Moreover, perpetrators can make their calls practically untraceable by utilizing a free and open-source software called the Tor network, or "the onion router." This network allows users to communicate anonymously and make calls that bounce between multiple IP addresses, according to Turgal. Police respond outside Central Catholic High School following the lockdown of the school after a call of an active shooter, on March 29, 2023, in Pittsburgh, Penn. Many schools, including Oakland Catholic and Pittsburgh Central Catholic, were targeted as part of what authorities are calling"computer-generated swatting calls.
"They hear about a critical incident and then they start imagining that there's more to it," Rozel told ABC News. "I could have sworn I heard blank when they didn't actually hear blank."
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