Australian Federal Police Commander Helen Schneider stated that the purported child abuse ring operated as a "peer-to-peer network," with certain offenders engaging in unlawful activities for more than a decade.
"Swatting" is a term used to describe a hoax call made to emergency services, typically reporting an immediate threat to human life, to draw a response from law enforcement and the SWAT team to a specific location.
The FBI alert warned the owners of SonarQube, a web-based application that companies integrate into their software build chains to test source code and discover security flaws before rolling out code and applications into production environments.