A Doxbin administrator got sentenced to prison for encouraging swatting attacks across the UK, United States and Canada.

A Doxbin administrator got sentenced to prison for encouraging swatting attacks across the UK, United States and Canada. Callum Dare, 26 from Wales, ran the platform Doxbin and its swatting focused chat channel. He got two years and three months after pleading guilty. Swatting is calling in a fake emergency, like a hostage situation or a bomb threat. You get an armed police unit sent to somebody's house. Dare didn't place any of the calls himself. What he did was encourage others to do it, help them pick targets, and then edit the police response footage into videos with the Doxbin logo to celebrate it and get more people to do it. One of the attacks tied to him shut down an entire street in Cardiff during Christmas shopping season over a fake bomb threat. Another one hit a university hall in Los Angeles with a fake bomb claim. Another one sent police surrounding a Canadian programmer's house over a fake hostage situation and a shooting claim. Investigators also found a phishing kit on his devices built to impersonate dark web marketplaces and steal login credentials, though there's no evidence that he actually used it. This case took the FBI, Canadian authorities and the UK police years to build. They traced his usernames back to a PayPal account and an email to his real identity. Follow for more cybercrime news.