{"id":732537,"date":"2025-11-22T01:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Hf4wFrSCUfj228wkYiho7i"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:41:36","slug":"infamous-swatter-for-hire-torswats-likely-arrested-after-a-private-investigator-worked-with-a-wow-twitch-streamer-and-the-fbi-to-take-them-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/infamous-swatter-for-hire-torswats-likely-arrested-after-a-private-investigator-worked-with-a-wow-twitch-streamer-and-the-fbi-to-take-them-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Infamous swatter-for-hire Torswats likely arrested after a private investigator worked with a WoW Twitch streamer and the FBI to take them down"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Schools, streamers, and even authors have all been the victim of swatter-for-hire Torswats, as was revealed by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/k7z8be\/torswats-computer-generated-ai-voice-swatting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motherboard<\/a> in April last year. Using the messaging app Telegram, the Torswats &apos;service&apos; has been offering swattings for cash\u2014$75 to shut down a school, for example\u2014and has been linked to a rash of criminal activity across the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In case you&apos;re unfamiliar, &apos;swatting&apos; is a term used to describe false reports made to the police. The practice that not only wastes funding and time, but also massively disrupts the lives of its victims, leading to traumatising searches of their homes. In some cases when these false calls are poorly handled by law enforcement, swatting can <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/man-responsible-for-fatal-2017-swatting-sentenced-to-20-years-in-jail\/\">be fatal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, it looks like Torswats\u2014a Californian teenager now extradited to Florida\u2014has been apprehended thanks to the work of a private investigator <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cafrozed\/status\/1750997199331500432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brad Dennis<\/a> (Cafrozed) and the FBI. According to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/torswats-swatting-arrest\/\">Wi<\/a><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/torswats-swatting-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">r<\/a><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/torswats-swatting-arrest\/\">ed<\/a>&apos;s report, Dennis had been &#8220;hunting Torswats for nearly two years&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One major breakthrough reportedly comes via Dennis&apos; cooperation with Twitch streamers. World of Warcraft streamer Matt Morse (<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/staysafetv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StaySafeTV on Twitch<\/a>) used Caforzed&apos;s services after he was swatted: &#8220;After getting pulled out of my house, with a wife and infant child inside, to face an armed group of SWAT officers pointing firearms at me, it is maddening to acknowledge that our justice system seemingly places a very low priority on capturing swatters.&#8221; Dennis later retweeted Morse&apos;s post, confirming his involvement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:531px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:106.97%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"gmCEuNACu3iR72DsFovTUV\" name=\"StaySafe Twitch.png\" alt=\"A post that reads: \"If anyone is dealing with swattings or anything remotely related, I highly recommend working with @cafrozed , who is a private investigator whom I've had the pleasure of working with over the last year. It was a around a year ago that I started getting habitually swatted, but after a year-long investigation, one of the people swatting me has just been arrested. After getting pulled out of my house, with a wife and infant child inside, to face an armed group of SWAT officers pointing firearms at me, it is maddening to acknowledge that our justice system seemingly places a very low priority on capturing swatters, but at the same time, it is such a white-pill to know that people like @cafrozed are invested in seeing investigations like this to through to their conclusion.\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/infamous-swatter-for-hire-torswats-likely-arrested-after-a-private-investigator-worked-with-a-wow-twitch-streamer-and-the-fbi-to-take-them-down.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"531\" height=\"568\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @StaySafeWarlock on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/N_Tys26\/status\/1753025517757006114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stream<\/a>, Morse says he was able to provide information to Dennis after recognising the alleged criminal&apos;s &#8220;ways of typing&#8221; from a private server community. &#8220;There are certain things that this person was saying where it was like: Huh, I knew a guy that used to say things like that five years ago on a private server \u2026 if that kid had not swatted me specifically, he probably would not be in jail right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis also used a service called Vox to pretend to hire Torswat&apos;s services, as the Wired report states: &#8220;By recording his network traffic, the investigator surreptitiously captured the swatter\u2019s IP address along with a username that at the time was unknown to law enforcement.&#8221; He then shared those details with the FBI, who used them in subpoenas during its investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Science fiction author Patrick S. Tomlinson also thanked Dennis on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stealthygeek\/status\/1751063664935735761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, writing: &#8220;My family has been terrorised by this sociopath and the cultists paying him for nearly two years. 46 swatting calls to our home, three to my elderly parents, and half a dozen bomb threats in multiple states in our names. We can&apos;t thank you enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seminole County later confirmed that the teenager is being held on a no-bond basis. Their exact involvement with Torswats\u2014whether they were a single individual or part of a wider group\u2014is also yet to be determined. Wired already reports that someone using Torswats&apos; handle has reached out and declared: &#8220;I am pretty sure I\u2019ll never be arrested&#8221;. However, in a high-profile incident such as this one, the chance of impersonators angling to stir the pot is high.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/infamous-swatter-for-hire-torswats-likely-arrested-after-a-private-investigator-worked-with-a-wow-twitch-streamer-and-the-fbi-to-take-them-down\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools, streamers, and even authors have all been the victim of swatter-for-hire Torswats, as was revealed by Motherboard in April last year. Using the messaging app Telegram, the Torswats &apos;service&apos; has been offering swattings for cash\u2014$75 to shut down a school, for example\u2014and has been linked to a rash of criminal activity across the United States.\u00a0 In case you&apos;re unfamiliar, &apos;swatting&apos; is a term used to describe false reports made to the police. The practice that not only wastes funding and time, but also massively disrupts the lives of its victims, leading to traumatising searches of their homes. In some cases when these false calls are poorly handled by law enforcement, swatting can be fatal. For the time being, it looks like Torswats\u2014a Californian teenager&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/infamous-swatter-for-hire-torswats-likely-arrested-after-a-private-investigator-worked-with-a-wow-twitch-streamer-and-the-fbi-to-take-them-down\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":732538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[950,1153,1080],"class_list":["post-732537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-streaming","tag-twitch","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Infamous swatter-for-hire Torswats likely arrested after a private investigator worked with a WoW Twitch streamer and the FBI to take them down | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Schools, streamers, and even authors have all been the victim of swatter-for-hire Torswats, as was revealed by Motherboard in April last year. 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