Toxic online subcultures fuelling Asia’s school attacks

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A security analyst says several attacks at Malaysian schools may be connected to an online subculture that glorifies real-life killers. The incidents in Kuching, Banting, and Bandar Utama have drawn attention to the influence of the True Crime Community among teenagers.

Recent school attacks across Malaysia have shone a light on a troubling trend of teenagers joining an online subculture that glamorises real-life killers, according to a prominent security analyst. Three violent incidents in Malaysian schools – in Kuching on October 21, Banting in July and Bandar Utama in October last year – could be linked to the True Crime Community (TCC), said Munira Mustaffa, founder of Kuala Lumpur-based security consulting firm Chasseur Group. In the Kuching case, the...