The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged two foreign nationals with conspiring to carry out a swatting operation against high-ranking government officials.
Romanian Thomasz Szabo, 26, and Serbian Nemanja Radovanovic, 21, have been charged with one count of conspiracy, 29 counts of making bomb threats, and four counts of making threats in connection with interstate and foreign commerce, the DOJ said in an Aug. 28 press release.
From 2020 to 2024, Szabo and Radovanovic allegedly used the personal information such as the home addresses of their victims to make false reports of emergencies and thus provoke law enforcement to respond.
Szabo was allegedly the administrator of a chat group in which the co-conspirators planned out their swatting strategies, using monikers such as “War Lord,” “Kollectivist,” and “Mortenberg Shekelstorms.”…