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764 network
764 is a violent online network that, according to an FBI warning, poses as a friend or partner on games and social apps, then uses compromising material to pressure kids into hurting themselves.
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Bloody Friday rumour (Poland)
After two real school attacks in Poland, a rumour of a coordinated online challenge for a "Bloody Friday" spread and emptied schools; police found no evidence of any such challenge, but teens were still detained for posting threats, so joining in is the real risk.
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School threats by teens
Recent Ontario police cases show teens making threats against schools, one of them in a youth group chat after an argument got heated; the threats may turn out to be empty, but kids who post or send them can be charged.
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AI nude deepfakes of teens
Offenders and some peers use AI to fake sexual images of teens from ordinary photos, and offenders use them to extort money; Cybertip.ca and the IWF both report sharp increases.
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Cat in the Hat school threat hoax
Creepy, often AI-made posts of the Cat in the Hat naming schools have spread across the US and police keep finding no credible threat, but teens who post or add threats are being arrested and charged, so the real risk is to kids who join in.
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764 network
764 is a violent online extremist network whose members befriend teens, mostly girls, then use threats and blackmail to push them into harming themselves, and recent prosecutions in the US and Québec show police are treating it as a real and serious threat.
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Sextortion
Offenders, often posing as a peer, get a teen to share an intimate image and then threaten to send it to friends and family unless they pay or send more; reports to the US child-protection centre NCMEC rose from about 36,000 in 2024 to over 50,000 in 2025, and Canadian police are charging offenders.
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764 network
764 is a violent extremist network, treated as a terrorist entity in Canada, whose members approach kids and teens on gaming and chat apps, build trust, then use blackmail to push them toward harming themselves or others.
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Sextortion
Sextortion is blackmail using intimate images, or the threat of sharing them, to force a young person to pay, send more images or comply; police in Winnipeg report a sharp rise and say victims should not pay and should tell someone.
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Sextortion
Sextortion is when someone, often a scammer posing as a teen, gets or fakes an intimate image of a young person and threatens to share it unless they pay, and AI-made fake images are making it harder for families to spot.
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Sexual deepfakes and Grok images
AI tools, including Grok on X, have been used to turn ordinary photos of real people, including children, into sexualized images without their consent, and those images can be used to humiliate or blackmail.
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Online recruitment of teens into crime and extremism
Police in Montréal report more offers online that pay teens to commit crimes, and Canada has listed violent extremist networks that recruit young people through social media and gaming platforms as terrorist entities.
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AI deepfake nudes of classmates
Police in Canada report that teens are using AI to turn ordinary photos of classmates into fake sexual images, and a teen has been charged with child sexual abuse material offences, so the harm falls on the girls targeted and on any teen who makes or shares the images.
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Virtual kidnapping scam calls
Scammers text or call families claiming a loved one has been kidnapped and send altered photos taken from social media as fake proof, but no one has been taken and the only goal is a quick ransom payment.
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AI intruder photo prank
Teens send parents AI-faked photos of a stranger inside the home to film their panic; the intruder is fake, but the emergency calls are real and kids have been charged.
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The Mistlift brief sums up what kids are into online this week, rated from harmless to serious, with what to say.