FBI hunting ISIS Gang hackers

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FBI hunting ISIS Gang hackers & gamers creating Cops episodes by swatting other gamers
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The FBI is tracking down a group of British hackers and gamers going by the name of "ISISGang;" the gang is believed to have used Skype to make terrorist threat "prank calls" that threatened schools, universities and conference centers with shootings and bombings.

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"The eight-month campaign is thought to have cost American authorities more than $1m as emergency response teams, including armed SWAT units and bomb disposal squads, have been dispatched to incidents and neighborhoods placed in lockdown," reported The Sunday Times. The calls have "included references to 9/11 and the killing of Iraqis by American military forces." A man claiming to be 'Mohammed Jamile' called Sandy Hook Elementary School and said he was on his way to the school to "kill all your asses."

21-year-old American Matthew Tollis is being prosecuted for allegedly being involved with the gang. Sadly what previously seemed like a stretch of law enforcement's imagination, claiming that gamers plot evil over Xbox and PS3, may be true in this case. Breitbart reported that Tollis told the FBI that "the gang met as Xbox gamers, and originally called themselves TeAM CrucifiX or Die before changing their name in August. They had all been involved in 'swatting', which involves calling in fake threats in order to get Swat teams to converge on the target."

Tollis, who was released on $100,000 bail, admitted to participating in six "swatting" calls. "An affidavit filed in federal court said that swatting was often perpetrated by Xbox gamers who occasionally hijacked people's Twitter or Facebook accounts and then refuse to release them unless the victims make a swatting call."

The three British hackers are known online as 'Verified', who also goes by ‘Spiky,' 'Jordie', and 'Declaws.' "Tollis has given the FBI possible identities for the first two, claiming that 'Verified' lives in Scotland. 'Declaws' may also be Scottish – he has tweeted about visiting McDonalds in Arbroath, a port on the eastern coast of Scotland."

"Jordie" claims to be an "aspiring rapper." Tweeting under the name "GDKJordie," he wrote: "I've more or less ruined my life at 16 because i [sic] thought it would be funny to swat a few cocky gamers and terrorize schools." The tweet has since been deleted.
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Source: Computerworld