Violent extremism and terrorism
See threats sooner and identify the people behind them.
Azonic Lighthouse watches for the threats, groups and actors your team sets. Azonic Vantage links an alias to the accounts and people behind it.
A Lighthouse topic set by the team: threats to public events, sorted into the team’s three levels: watch, alert your team and escalate. One alias the team follows comes back under a new account after each removal, across social media, a forum and the open web: first grievance posts, then praise for an attack, then a question about how crowds enter a venue, then a post naming a public event at the same venue. Each return climbs a level. The last is escalated, the duty team is alerted, and the alias opens as a Vantage case with every account and post in it while Vantage links the alias to a person.
The hard part is finding out who posted it.
Extremist actors post under many aliases and move between services when accounts are removed. More of them are young, and many were drawn in online.
Teams sift large volumes of content to find the few posts that show intent. Then they have to work out who wrote them, often by hand.
3,000+
Reports of sadistic online exploitation of children to NCMEC in 2025
Violent online groups push children to harm themselves and others. NCMEC links much of the rise of more than 125% to better reporting by companies.
1 in 10
Nearly one in ten CSIS terrorism investigations include a subject under 18
CSIS reports youth as young as 13 in some counter-terrorism investigations. Four minors were arrested in 2025.
50%
Rise in ASIO counter-terrorism leads in the 12 months to October 2026
Counter-terrorism warrants rose 80%. ASIO links this to a degraded security environment and an adjusted threshold.
656
Violent extremist web links sent to Internal Affairs investigators in 2025
92% of the content was removed after the department stepped in. Christchurch attack material was 32% of referrals.
10,293
Referrals to Prevent in England and Wales in the year to September 2025
Up 39%, the most in a year since the series began in 2015. People aged 11 to 15 were the largest group, at 36%.
130
People aged 18 or under arrested for terrorism-related offences in the EU in 2025
Out of 486 arrests across 21 member states. 108 of the 347 people arrested for jihadist offences were 18 or under.
A threat posted under an alias, identified before the event.
An alias the unit follows is removed and comes back under a new account. When the alias names a public event, Lighthouse flags the post. Vantage links the alias to an older forum account, an email address and a phone number in an open case, and identifies the author while there is still time to act.
Keep track of actors across accounts, and identify who they are.
Vantage
Links an alias to a person.
A cited referral drafted by Vantage, every line citing its sources, waiting for an investigator to approve it.
Links aliases
Follows a username to the accounts, emails, phone numbers and sites connected to it.
Maps the network
Shows who a person is connected to, and which of your other cases they already appear in.
Drafts the referral
Drafts a cited report or referral. An investigator checks it and approves who it is shared with.
Lighthouse
Warns you when a threat or an actor surfaces.
Lighthouse alerts for the topic Threats to public events: Post names a public event and a date; Alias your unit follows returns on a new account.
Actors and aliases
Follows the aliases your team names, including when they come back under a new account after a removal.
Threats to people and places
Flags posts that match the targets, places and events your team sets, with where and when they appeared.
How the threat is changing
Reporting on which groups and themes are growing, for your team and the people you brief.
Who this is for.
- Counter-terrorism unitsGovernmentTriage online threats, identify who is behind them and build the case for disruption or arrest.
- Online harm regulatorsGovernmentFind terrorist and violent extremist content on regulated services, and act on it through notices and enforcement.
- Social media and gaming platformsEnterpriseFind extremist accounts and the networks behind them, remove them, and refer credible threats to police.
Common questions.
Does this replace our intelligence or case systems?
What does Lighthouse watch, and on whose authority?
Does Azonic decide what counts as a threat?
Where does our data sit?
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