Swatting - Wikipedia

In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 operator) to dispatch an emergency response team. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of said team.

Swatting has its origins in prank calls to emergency services. Increasing sophistication of the techniques employed and the objectives, notably attempts to direct response units of particular types, and in particular attempts to cause SWAT teams to be dispatched to particular locations, spawned the term swatting. The term may have been coined by the FBI, which investigates these activities.

Caller ID Spoofing, social engineering, prank call and phone phreaking techniques may be combined for Swatters. 9-1-1 systems (including telephony and human operators) have been tricked by calls placed from cities hundreds of miles away.




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