Global Sting Lured Criminals with Fake App

[youngwolf]

 

[wr]

800 criminals arrested in biggest ever law enforcement operation against encrypted communication | Europol

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Dutch National Police (Politie), and the Swedish Police Authority (Polisen), in cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and 16 other countries have carried out with the support of Europol one of the largest and most...

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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Dutch National Police (Politie), and the Swedish Police Authority (Polisen), in cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and 16 other countries have carried out with the support of Europol one of the largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date in the fight against encrypted criminal activities.

Since 2019, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, in close coordination with the Australian Federal Police, strategically developed and covertly operated an encrypted device company, called ANOM, which grew to service more than 12 000 encrypted devices to over 300 criminal syndicates operating in more than 100 countries, including Italian organised crime, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and international drug trafficking organisations.

The goal of the new platform was to target global organised crime, drug trafficking, and money laundering organisations, regardless of where they operated, and offer an encrypted device with features sought by the organised crime networks, such as remote wipe and duress passwords, to persuade criminal networks to pivot to the device.

The FBI and the 16 other countries of the international coalition, supported by Europol and in coordination with the US Drug Enforcement Administration, then exploited the intelligence from the 27 million messages obtained and reviewed them over 18 months while ANOM’s criminal users discussed their criminal activities.

This operation, known as OTF Greenlight/Trojan Shield, is one of the largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date in the fight against encrypted criminal activities. A series of large-scale law enforcement actions were executed over the past days across 16 countries resulting in more than 700 house searches, more than 800 arrests and the seizure of over 8 tons of cocaine, 22 tons of cannabis and cannabis resin, 2 tons of synthetic drugs (amphetamine and methamphetamine), 6 tons of synthetic drugs precursors, 250 firearms, 55 luxury vehicles and over $48 million in various worldwide currencies and cryptocurrencies. Countless spin-off operations will be carried out in the weeks to come. Operation Trojan Shield/Greenlight will enable Europol to further enhance the intelligence picture on organised crime affecting the EU due to the quality of the information gathered. This enhanced intelligence picture will support the continued effort in identifying operating high-value criminal targets on a global scale.

 

[kingkoopa]

Ummmm this aint it.

RICO on steroids.

 

[wr]

Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals

New court records detail how the FBI turned encrypted phone company 'Anom' into a honeypot for organized crime.

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[wr]

"Countless spin-off operations will be carried out in the weeks to come. "

 

[finessence]

Computer thugs

gangsters use to despise phone usage back in the day ironically

 

[combo gd]

It is always interesting to watch protectors of a system detain people who intentionally work their way around being exploited by that same system.

 

[eracism]

 

[slaughterx]

Don't let them get ahold on Snapchat... mofos gonna be sick for real.

 

[Case]

Sting??..

 

[youngwolf]

Don't let them get ahold on Snapchat... mofos gonna be sick for real.

“It disappears!”

 

[moderndarwin]

I’m curious how much it cost to organize and coordinate all of this though. It doesn’t seem like a low cost endeavor and what is seized seems like a drop in the water. Getting the criminals matters but i guess this is the new version of getting the low hanging fruit.

 

[slaughterx]

Doubt it cost over 48 mil... plus the point is getting the guns, drugs, and criminals off the street. Feds getting paid regardless.

 

[egaroc1]

They got mostly weed n 250 guns off the streets.
“ThAnk YoU fOR keEPiN uS sAFe”

 

[slaughterx]

2 tons of meth, 8 tons of coke... 48 million in crypto.

 

[dmbrhs]

“It disappears!”

Just like BBMs, amirite?

 

[marikomorose]

this is kinda unethical. shouldn't be allowed.

 

[TURBO UNO]

1st seen on the Simpsons!

 

[boxer15]

“It disappears!”

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

civil forfeiture is theft.

 

[slaughterx]

So are paying taxes. It is what it is.

 

[Brownstone]

Whoa, I thought crime 101 was no technology

Part of me thinks this crypto thing is a big conspiracy to get all the criminals hooked on it then boom, hammer down

 

[youngwolf]

1st seen on the Simpsons!