Group 764: The Satanic and Terrorist Network that Creates High Alert

The 764 network is a right-wing extremist group founded in 2020 by a 15-year-old American boy named Bradley Cadenhead. The band's name comes from the zip code of their town in Texas. The FBI has warned that this group is made up of online predators who act on platforms such as Discord, Roblox and Telegram.

Their strategy is based on making friends with teenagers in vulnerable situations and then forcing and managing them. According to the FBI and the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom, the group persuades its victims to perform sexual acts, self-harm and even attempt to take their own lives during live video calls, while its members watch.

The 764 group was founded by Bradley Cadenhead in 2021. The young man from Stephenville, Texas, chose the name based on his local zip code. This extremist organization operates on the Internet, especially through Telegram and Discord groups, focusing on minors between the ages of 8 and 17 years old.

These networks use threats, blackmail and manipulation to force or extort victims to perform, share or livestream acts of self-harm, animal cruelty, sexually explicit behavior or even suicide. The recordings are distributed among the members of the network in order to continue extorting the victims and maintain control over them.

The researchers indicate that the reasons behind the threats of this extremist organization are very specific, and some participants in these threatening actions may be involved in crimes only for sexual pleasure, seeking social status or need for belonging, or for a mixture of other motivations that may not be ideological.

How they act

The group 764 attacks minors and other people in vulnerable situations in a planned way, using threats, blackmail and manipulation to pressure or extort victims, getting them to perform, share or broadcast live acts of self-harm, cruelty to animals, explicit sexual content or suicide.

These types of recordings are shared among the members of the network to continue extorting victims and maintain control over them, the FBI said, noting that victims are prone to feel embarrassed, harassed, extorted or to be re-victimized continuously and in the long term.

This criminal group is a network of extremists who seek to make the creation, exchange and possession of child pornography and violent graphic material habitual, in order to desensitize and corrupt young people for future acts of violence. Members demand that victims engage in and share content of self-harm, sexual acts, animal abuse, random violence, suicides and homicides, all with the aim of causing chaos and disrupting society and world order.

These organizations seek to desensitize young people to violence and undermine the social norms related to it. They make the possession, production and dissemination of explicit child sexual abuse material and violent content habitual, with the aim of corrupting and preparing their victims for future violent acts, gaining recognition among other members of the network and sowing fear in order to expedite chaos under the ideology of 764, thus seeking to destabilize the social order.

Conclusion

According to the researchers, the 764 group lacks a clear structure and does not have a defined leadership. It consists of dispersed communities that operate secretly on digital platforms such as Discord and Telegram, or associated with well-known video games worldwide such as Roblox and Minecraft. In these spaces, they infiltrate the chat rooms where teenagers exchange ideas on various topics and, in doing so, identify their potential victims among the most vulnerable users.

The United States Department of Justice considers Com and 764 as one of the main terrorist threats, being this the highest priority assigned to an extremist group, ideology or tendency according to the internal categorization of the security forces in the United States. The intelligence documents show the growing concern of analysts about the harm suffered by victims of youth exploitation and the increase in incitements to physical violence.