FBI Reports Fivefold Surge in Arrests Tied to NVE Networks Exploiting Children

By Mary Margaret Olohan | The Daily Wire

WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has seen a dramatic 490% increase in “Nihilistic Violent Extremism” arrests during the past fiscal year, The Daily Wire can first report — an almost fivefold increase in the 2025 fiscal year.

These arrests are mostly associated with 764, an online network that preys on young children, The Daily Wire has learned.

“Members of ‘764’ use known online social media communications platforms as mediums to support the possession, production, and sharing of extreme gore media and child sex abuse material with vulnerable, juvenile populations,” the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland explained in a Nov. 20 release. “These individuals often conduct coordinated extortions of teenagers, blackmailing the victims to comply with the group’s demands.”

The total number of state, federal, and foreign arrests that occurred as a direct result of FBI investigations and actions resulted in a 490% increase during fiscal year 2025, the FBI shared.

Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) is a law enforcement term describing individuals who are motivated to violence, mainly out of a hatred for society and a desire to see society collapse. An FBI spokesman explained that not every Nihilistic Violent Extremism case they are looking at was specifically related to 764, but many of them are. The bureau views 764 cases as a subset of the Nihilistic Violent Extremism category.

“This FBI is fully engaged in dismantling NVE networks and violent groups like 764 – who prey on young children using online platforms like gaming systems or social media,” FBI Director Kash Patel told The Daily Wire. “As we speak, we have over 300 cases nationwide related to 764 alone, with more to come, and have surged NVE-related arrests almost 5-fold from the year prior. We won’t stop until we get the job done.”

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