Former FBI agent reveals how parents can protect kids from dangerous 764 group

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After the FBI initiated an examination in A demanding criminal network A former FBI agent, who is known as “764” as “764”, offers parents practical tips to protect their children.

Dr. Stephen Boyce, CEO and President of the cyber doctor and former forensic analyst With the FBIFox News Digital explained that the group dates around 2021 and has grown into a global threat.

“The 764 group is a decentralized network of neo-Nazi-Satanic ideology and is bound to a group called Order of nine angels,” said Boyce.

What distinguishes this group is the fragmented but coordinated structure, whereby members spread their influence on popular social media and gaming platforms.

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The group was initially attributed to a founder based in the USA, who was later sentenced to 80 years in prison and has expanded its reach since then. The FBI recently announced that it examined at least 250 incidents that are bound to the group.

“The FBI examines At least 250 topics connected to violent online networks that are generally referred to as “764”, but contain many offshoot networks and names, “the FOX News said in a statement on Tuesday evening.

The predators are known to use minors on social media and forced them to get them to commit violent or sexual actions themselves, and then use these videos to blackmail minors to increase violent or sexual videos, which are then divided online with “764” fans.

Boyce warned that “the common, who certainly makes all headlines, is both Roblox and the discord,” and found that these platforms are not naturally malicious, but their communication features were exploited by predators.

Mainstream apps that many young adults use, such as Tikok, Snapchat, Instagram and X, are not immune to abuse, he said.

“I think everything you have the ability to communicate with someone else justifies parents with whom their children interact,” he said.

Boyce said that an equally concerned factor is the use of psychological tactics by the group Include victims. “One of the most common tactics is bombing love and getting started with these fake online relationships,” said Boyce.

Manipulation can lead to minors send compromising content or perform disruptive actions.

“There is a lot of this sex management as well as various different things and the use of coded language,” said Boyce, pointing out the use of communication by memes and coded language.

The group’s end game can be particularly tragic. In some cases, the 764 network pushes its victims towards livestreamed self-harm and even suicide. “They promote self -harm,” he said. “Children were asked to hurt themselves and write their name in their own blood.”

These actions are often used as transition rites within the group, which further connects the victims into their toxic culture, he explained.

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Educational pointer:

Yaron Litwin, the CMO of the Canopy Parental Control app, told Fox News Digital that the limitation of the screen time was not sufficient.

“It is not enough to insert time limits of the screens. It is not enough to Install parent controls. Mothers and fathers have to be proactive and an open dialogline with their children to maintain online security issues and should do their best to issue and enforce the household rules, which at least neutralizes somewhat real threats such as 764, ”he said.

If you know which apps use children, who they communicate with and monitor all changes in behavior, it can be life -saving. Parents should pay attention to confidentiality on online activities, sudden romantic entanglements, unusual meme use, cruelty to animals and any signs of self-harm.

“For example, newly discovered advertisements of the irritability, the growing confidentiality of the use of their devices and suddenly withdrawn can be withdrawn socially, all signs of increasing exposure to 764 or other dangerous or harmful online groups,” he said. “A sudden loss of interest in your offline life and constantly looking for privacy -looking loss can also be suspicious signs.

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“If your child has such signs for it, they react with caution and care – not with panic.”

Audrey Conclin from Fox News Digital has contributed to this report.