Source: therecord.media 4/2/25
A multi-year operation against the child sexual abuse material (CSAM) platform Kidflix has led to dozens of arrests and the seizure of tens of thousands of illegal videos, Europol said Wednesday.
Some of the 79 people arrested “not only uploaded and watched videos but also abused children,” Europol said, reporting that 39 children had been protected because of the operation.
“The investigation is ongoing,” the agency said, with 35 countries participating overall in what it labeled as the “largest child sexual exploitation operation in Europol’s history.” Users accessed Kidflix through the dark web and paid for access tokens in cryptocurrencies.
Germany’s State Criminal Police of Bavaria (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt) and the Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime (ZCB) led the operation. Each published additional details about specific operations against individuals.
The 79 arrests were from a larger list of 1,393 suspects that have been identified so far, Europol said, representing only a fraction of the 1.8 million users who reportedly logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March of this year.
Wait…..1.8 million logins. 😱
I’m shocked. A law enforcement agency actually going after producers and distributors. What a novel thought…
This article provides proof of an argument that I have been making for several years. That is, most of the CP available on the web is produced outside the U.S. and some or most of it may be legal in the country where it was produced. Although the U.S. defines minor as someone under the age of 18, many countries define minor differently down to the age of under 12. By the way, only about half of the states in the U.S. define minor as under 18. The remaining states define minor as under either 16 or 17.