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Chief research officer at Unit 221B, a cybersecurity firm; she researches cybercrime groups and advises on tracking online threat actors.
Prasan Nepal, the 21-year-old who led the 764 child sextortion network, pleaded guilty Thursday and faces 15 to 30 years in prison. The Justice Department calls 764 a violent extremist network, but the count he admitted is conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child.
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Kyle Spitze drew the maximum on every count, served consecutively, in a case that reached the FBI through a Discord referral. Escalation paths now feed maximum-penalty prosecutions.
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The 4,100 coins left a Washington wallet after two callers talked their way into the holder's Google Drive, and the arrests followed an exchange signup made from a home IP plus a month of spending loud enough to advertise itself.
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Eighteen defendants are charged over the August 2024 heist, and the alleged ringleader reaches a plea agreement hearing on Tuesday. Prosecutors describe laundering built to hide the money, but one account signup exposed it.
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Malone Lam's plea hearing closes a case that started with a phone call and unravelled over a nightclub tab, at a moment when FBI crypto fraud complaints have risen nearly 50% and the DOJ's crypto unit is gone.
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The FBI calls this the first child charged and adjudicated in federal court for crimes tied to 764. It lands while the bureau says it is investigating more than 500 subjects across the same network.
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