Rapper and YouTuber DDG posted on social media that sheriff's deputies drew their weapons and briefly detained him in what he ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- Reports of a shooting on Lincoln Ave. in Utica Tuesday night turned out to be a swatting call. Just after 7:30 ...

DDG wears a burgundy jacket featuring a subtle, intricate pattern. The jacket has a pointed collar and a zip fastening.

Swatting — when someone makes a false 911 report to illicit a large and aggressive police response — has become increasingly common over the last decade as it becomes easier for callers to ...

A day that was supposed to be fun turned into a horrifying experience for DDG after he was swatted during a paintball tournament.

He was briefly detained before being released. While the exact nature of what happened with DDG remains a mystery at this moment, reports have claimed that he was detained following a reported ...

A group of sophisticated young cyber criminals poses a rising threat with offenses ranging from swatting and cyber theft to ...

The FBI has issued a warning about “The Com”, or “The Community”, a growing and sophisticated group of cybercriminals ...

DDG was detained at a desert paintball tournament after a swatting prank triggered a police raid, but was later released without charges.

The FBI described swatting as a new phenomenon in 2008, just a few years before I was a victim of it. It’s been in the headlines recently because of a spate of incidents involving public officials.

A group of federal judges took the rare step of speaking out publicly about receiving death threats and mysterious pizza ...

Some hoaxers have used swatting to harass celebrities, and there was a spate of such attacks in Los Angeles — on Rihanna, P. Diddy, Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher and others — in 2013.