CVLT (organization)

CVLT, also known as Cult, was an international neo-Nazi and nihilistic online organization that was responsible for acts of child exploitation. Several of the organization's leaders were arrested in the United States for producing child pornography and coercing minors to commit self-harm. According to police, CVLT has exploited approximately 2 minors in California and 16 minors around the world in total. The US Department of Justice described it as “an online group that espoused neo-Nazism, nihilism, and pedophilia as its core principles”. CVLT is affiliated with The Com, a broad network of international cybercriminals. CVLT became known after one of its leaders, Kaleb Merritt, was caught and convicted of raping a girl and taking inappropriate pictures of her.

CVLT was created in 2019 by an Indian school student, named Rohan Rane. CVLT started out as a Discord community with a couple hundred members who were followers of various far-right ideologies. Rohan then started attracting underage girls from around the world to join his community and chat with him and CVLT's members. Eventually, he managed to convince them to send him nude photos of themselves and used them to blackmail them into doing self-harm including suicide before being arrested in 2021; other members of CVLT were arrested in 2025. CVLT is considered to be predecessor of 764, an influential child exploitation network. Its founder, Bradley Cadenhead, was inspired by CVLT to create the network, specifically after talking with one of CVLT's members in a Minecraft server.