Although seemingly innocuous when posted or shared, the images and videos can provide malicious actors an abundant supply of content to exploit for criminal activity. The FBI urges the public to exercise caution when posting or direct messaging personal photos, videos, and identifying information on social media, dating apps, and other online sites. The groups control their victims through extreme fear and many members have an end-goal of forcing the minors they extort into committing suicide on live-stream for their own entertainment or their own sense of fame. Members of the groups threaten to share sexually explicit videos or photos of the minor victims with their family, friends, and/or post to the internet. Self-harm activity includes cutting, stabbing, or fansigning 3. The groups use extortion and blackmail tactics, such as threatening to SWAT 1 or DOX 2 the minor victims, if they do not comply with the groups' requests, manipulate and extort minors into producing CSAM and videos depicting animal cruelty and self-harm. The groups target minors between the ages of 8 and 17 years old, especially LGBTQ+ youth, racial minorities, and those who struggle with a variety of mental health issues, such as depression and suicidal ideation. The key motivators of these groups are to gain notoriety and rise in status within their groups. To gain access to a majority of these groups, prospective members are required to live-stream or upload videos depicting their minor victims harming animals or committing self-harm, suicide, murder, or other acts of violence. They operate on publicly available platforms, such as social media sites or mobile applications.
The violent online groups use many names, including 676, 764, CVLT, Court, Kaskar, Harm Nation, Leak Society, and H3ll, but continuously evolve and form subgroups under different monikers. These groups use threats, blackmail, and manipulation to control the victims into recording or live-streaming self-harm, sexually explicit acts, and/or suicide the footage is then circulated among members to extort victims further and exert control over them. The FBI is warning the public of violent online groups deliberately targeting minor victims on publicly available messaging platforms to extort them into recording or live-streaming acts of self-harm and producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). You can also chat with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline here.Violent Online Groups Extort Minors to Self-Harm and Produce Child Sexual Abuse Material If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or a suicidal crisis, you can reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. Students at the school staged a walkout Wednesday in support of Adriana's family. The District has contacted the Department of Education and will undergo an independent assessment of the District's anti-bullying policies and ensure every necessary safeguard is in place to protect our students and staff."Įach teenager and their guardian was served with a copy of their complaint and were released pending future court appearances, the prosecutor told CBS News. In a statement on its website, the school district wrote: "The Central Regional family continues to mourn the loss of one of our children. Triantafillos Parlapanides, the superintendent of the Central Regional School District Board of Education resigned. School officials told CBS New York that they notified the family and called Adriana's death horrible.
Triantafillos Parlapanides, superintendent of schools, told CBS New York. "We always address every issue of bullying and on the day of the incident four students were suspended," Dr.
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