Law Enforcement Agency Conducts Cyberbullying Crackdown: BKA tackles illegal cyber-group
On a Wednesday announcement, the BKA declared that suspects were reportedly focusing on "easily manipulated or mentally frail individuals" for harassment, with the intention of embarrassing and pushing them off their digital platforms. Around 10 residences were raided early Wednesday in Berlin, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, and Brandenburg.
During the sweeps, the BKA managed to confiscate various digital storage devices and tools for analysis. This German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) group is predominantly online-based, operating through internet networks.
As per the BKA, the tactics employed by this New World Order collective encompass placing false emergency calls to dispatch emergency services to the victims' homes, as evidently demonstrated in live streams. This way of bullying is referred to as "swatting." Moreover, the suspects are suspected of attempting to steal personal information from their victims and broadcast it during these livestreamed gaming sessions, along with expressions of hate speech and symbols related to prohibited organizations.
This joint investigation is being managed by the BKA and a specialized cybercrime department based in Frankfurt am Main from the General Prosecutor's Office. The authorities have expressed their resolve to suppress any form of threat, exclusion, and hate speech online.
The raid on various residences led authorities to discover that the suspects were actively using the Meadows of online gaming communities to carry out their activities, exploiting vulnerabilities in these digital spaces. Subsequently, the BKA discovered that these individuals were broadcasting stolen personal information and hate speech, further traumatizing their targets.
