US arrests two alleged leaders of online extremist 764 group

U.S. authorities arrested two alleged leaders of the global online extremist network “764” — Leonidas Varagiannis and Prasan Nepal — accused of grooming, coercing, and extorting minors to produce child sexual abuse material; the group operated a core subgroup (“764 Inferno”), maintained digital lorebooks to recruit and rank members, and exploited children via gaming platforms and messaging apps as part of a broader child-exploitation ecosystem tracked by law enforcement.