Child exploitation and sextortion
Identify the offender, and the other victims, sooner.
Azonic Vantage links the account named in a report to the person behind it, and finds the other young people the same offender is targeting. Azonic Lighthouse warns your team when known offenders and sextortion schemes surface.
A Vantage case opened from a sextortion report. Vantage links the extorting account, the payment account and a recovery number to Person B, the possible offender, and finds two more young people the same account reached, neither of whom has reported. Both findings wait for the investigator, and nothing leaves Vantage until they approve the draft referral.
Most reports start with an account name and little else.
Offenders use many accounts and move children between apps. Financially motivated sextortion is run by organised groups, often overseas, that target many young people at once.
Identifying the offender, and the other victims, means searching by hand across tools that don’t connect. Every day a victim stays unidentified, they stay at risk.
21.3m
Reports of suspected child sexual exploitation to NCMEC in 2025
Received by NCMEC’s CyberTipline from around the world. Reports of online enticement rose 158% on 2024.
28,116
Reports from the public processed by Cybertip.ca, Canada’s tipline, in 2025
17,342 of the reports concerned suspected child sexual abuse and exploitation material, across about 200,000 web addresses.
100,194
Reports of online child sexual exploitation to the ACCCE in 2025-26
An average of 275 reports a day, received by the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation.
20,000+
Reports of online child sexual exploitation linked to New Zealand in 2025
Sent by NCMEC to New Zealand enforcement agencies, up 29% on 16,223 in 2024. 151 involved suspected AI-generated material.
92,000+
Referrals of child sexual abuse from online platforms to the NCA in 2025
Online-facilitated abuse now makes up at least 42% of recorded child sexual abuse offences in England and Wales.
3.2m
Confirmed child sexual abuse records exchanged by INHOPE hotlines in 2025
Up from 737,780 in 2024. The Netherlands, Romania and the US were the top hosting countries for confirmed material.
A parent’s report, traced to the offender and other victims.
A parent reports that their child is being blackmailed for money. A platform referral already in the queue names the same payment account. Vantage links the extorting account, its recovery number and the payment account, identifies the offender behind all three, and finds a third young person who paid but never reported.
Safeguard victims sooner, and keep track of repeat offenders.
Vantage
Works each referral through to the people involved.
A cited referral drafted by Vantage, every line citing its sources, waiting for an investigator to approve it.
Identifies the offender
Follows the account in a report to the payment details, phone numbers and other accounts behind it, and to the person who runs them.
Finds the other victims
Finds the other reports and accounts that share the same details, so victims of the same offender can be identified and safeguarded sooner. Where there is a wider network, Vantage shows that too.
Ranks referrals and drafts the report
Ranks incoming referrals by urgency and drafts a cited report for a supervisor, a prosecutor or another agency. Nothing leaves until an investigator approves it.
Lighthouse
Warns you when offenders and schemes resurface.
Lighthouse alerts for the topic Sextortion schemes: New account reuses a handle your unit tracks; Payment details from a known extortion script.
Offenders and aliases
Know when a username or profile your unit tracks appears somewhere new, including after an account is removed.
Sextortion schemes
Flags the scripts, payment details and account patterns organised sextortion groups use, as they spread.
Alerts ready to act on
Each alert carries the evidence needed for a takedown request, a report or a new case.
Who this is for.
- Child exploitation unitsGovernmentWork referrals from platforms, hotlines and other agencies, identify offenders and victims, and build the case for prosecution.
- Child-protection and online safety regulatorsGovernmentFind the services and accounts used to harm children, and act through notices, removal and referral.
- Platform trust and safetyEnterpriseFind the accounts targeting children on your service, who runs them and who else they have contacted, and report them to the right authority.
Where Azonic started.
Azonic’s co-founder, Caden Scott, founded and leads the International Online Crime Coordination Center (IOC3), a non-profit that connects agencies and platforms working on online crime. Azonic grew out of that work: investigators with more child exploitation reports than they could carry, and tools that had not kept up.
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