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People (7)

  • Alexis Aldair Chavez Alexis Aldair Chavez, alias 'Zack8884,' administered the 8884 network within The Com ecosystem and in December 2025 became the first 764-affiliated defendant to plead guilty to federal RICO conspiracy charges.
  • Jeffrey Roussel Jeffrey Roussel is a Quebec City resident charged in April 2026 under Canadian terrorism statutes for promoting 764 via Telegram, among the first prosecutions under Canada's December 2025 terrorist entity designation of 764.
  • Justin Sher Justin Sher is a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section and the lead federal prosecutor on 764 Network terrorism cases, including the first-ever terrorism charge against a 764 member in United States v. Martin.
  • Leonidas Varagiannis Leonidas Varagiannis (alias 'War') is a U.S. citizen who co-led 764 Inferno with Prasan Nepal, arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with running a child exploitation enterprise, contesting extradition as of mid-2026.
  • Natalie Rupnow Natalie Rupnow was a 15-year-old Madison, Wisconsin student who killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in December 2024 before dying by suicide, having radicalized through WatchPeopleDie, 764-affiliated, and Terrorgram-adjacent content.
  • Prasan Nepal Prasan Nepal (alias 'Trippy') co-led the 764 Inferno child exploitation enterprise with Leonidas Varagiannis, arrested in High Point, North Carolina in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with CSAM production and related offenses.
  • Tony Christopher Long Tony Christopher Long is a Porterville, California 764 network member federally indicted in October 2025 on six counts including animal crushing and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Organizations (7)

  • 764 Inferno 764 Inferno is the elite inner cell of the 764 network operating a Lorebook CSAM economy, led by Leonidas Varagiannis and Prasan Nepal at the time of their April 2025 RICO arrests in the District of Columbia.
  • Greggy's Cult Greggy's Cult was an online child exploitation network that operated on Discord from January 2020 to January 2021, using blackmail and CSAM coercion methods that directly informed the founding of 764.
  • Harm Nation Harm Nation is a 764 splinter network that emerged around 2022, characterized by CSAM production and animal crushing content, with Kyle Spitze of Maryville, Tennessee as its most documented prosecuted member.
  • Kaskar Kaskar is a 764 splinter group founded around 2022 by a figure known as 'Courtbox,' characterized by sadistic sextortion and psychological manipulation targeting children aged 9 to 17, with no publicly named prosecutions as of mid-2026.
  • Maniac Murder Cult Maniac Murder Cult (MKY) is a Ukrainian neo-Nazi accelerationist network whose 'Murder Points' system rewards escalating real-world violence, proscribed by the UK and Canada in 2025, with leader Michail Chkhikvishvili sentenced to 15 years in U.S. federal prison in 2026.
  • The Com The Com is a transnational online criminal ecosystem spanning three overlapping spheres (cybercrime, child exploitation, and offline violence), with 764 as its dominant sextortion subnetwork and hundreds of active FBI investigations across all U.S. field offices as of 2025.
  • WatchPeopleDie WatchPeopleDie is a fringe gore website documented by the ADL as a gateway to white supremacist radicalization and identified as the entry point in the documented radicalization pathways of both Natalie Rupnow and Solomon Henderson.

Events (4)

  • 2024 Abundant Life Christian School Shooting On December 16, 2024, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in an attack traced to radicalization through WatchPeopleDie and 764/Terrorgram-adjacent content.
  • 2025 Antioch High School Shooting Solomon Henderson (17) killed one student and wounded another at Antioch High School in Nashville on January 22, 2025, leaving a manifesto citing Maniac Murder Cult; police found no direct MKY coordination or co-conspirators.
  • Project Compass Project Compass is a Europol-coordinated 28-country law enforcement operation against the Com network and its 764 subgroup, launched in January 2025, that by February 2026 had produced 30 arrests and identified 179 perpetrators.
  • United States v. Martin (4-25-cr-00190) United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190, is the first federal prosecution to charge a 764 Network member under a terrorism statute, using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas.

Concepts (4)

  • 18 U.S.C. § 2339A 18 U.S.C. § 2339A is the federal material support to terrorists statute that does not require a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, instead requiring only that support be provided knowing it will be used to carry out one of its listed predicate offenses.
  • 18 U.S.C. § 956 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) prohibits conspiracies within the United States to murder, kidnap, or maim persons in a foreign country, and functions as the predicate offense anchoring the terrorism material support charge in United States v. Martin against 764 Network leader Baron Cain Martin.
  • Lorebook The Lorebook is 764 Inferno's internal currency system, consisting of curated CSAM collections coerced from victims that members trade to establish rank, the core organizational mechanism distinguishing 764's hierarchy from ideologically motivated networks.
  • Nihilistic Violent Extremism Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) is an FBI and DOJ classification for extremist violence driven by misanthropy and network status-seeking rather than unified ideology, applied to the 764 network and Com-adjacent groups to distinguish them from ideologically motivated violent extremism.