"decentralised online crime networks and loosely affiliated individuals in Australia and offshore who are glorifying crime online, such as sadistic online exploitation, cyber-attacks and violence."
"While these networks do not have a centralised hierarchy or a single ideology, they are prolific and are attracted to violent extremism, nihilism, sadism, Nazism and satanism."
"They are 'crimefluencers', and are motivated by anarchy and hurting others, with most of their victims pre-teen or teenage girls."
"In this new, twisted type of gamification, perpetrators reach a status or new level in their group when they provide more content showing more extreme acts of depravity and sadism."
Australia's Federal Police is developing an AI to interpret emojis and Generation Z/Alpha slang to detect online discussions of crime. Decentralised and loosely affiliated networks in Australia and offshore are glorifying sadistic exploitation, cyber-attacks and violence. These networks lack central hierarchy but are prolific and attracted to violent extremism, nihilism, sadism, Nazism and satanism. Many operate as 'crimefluencers' motivated by anarchy, targeting mostly pre-teen and teenage girls. Recruitment often involves tests requiring videos of self-harm or gory content, and gamification rewards increasingly extreme material. Investigators identified 59 alleged offenders and executed international and domestic arrests; a Five Eyes subgroup and an AFP task force target these gangs.
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