14 minutes agoGlobal Operation Against Organised Crime: How did he arrive? The FBI broke it? Serbia mentioned as well
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)It was mid-2018 when an importer of narcotic substances met with FBI agents from San Diego and made a tempting offer: in exchange for reducing his sentence, he would offer a backdoor door for classified and encrypted communications of a large network of groups [...]
Importer had spent a large sum of money on the development of encrypted equipment that could only be used by criminals worldwide to avoid police capture.
The new device, called Anom, would be posted as a modified mobile phone, removed anything that could be compromised, and cut off with a specifically encrypted software.
The source planned the AnoM delivery for an existing network of distributors linked to organised crime groups, but only after it was launched by the FBI, reports The Guardian, is Periscope.
Within three years, Anom would be used by exclusively criminal clients in 90 countries of the world to send tens of millions of messages referring to murders, drug dealers, corruption and money laundering, including 450 thousand images of cash and cocaine. And all this time, the FBI and other police forces were reading, watching and listening to what was happening.
Details of the operation, codenamed the Trojan Shield, were drawn up in a testimony to the FBI executed at the US court on May 17th of 2021.
In Australia, about 4 thousand policemen conducted raids on more than 500 addresses, as part of the arrests made in 18 different countries since the operation began.
About 9,000 of these devices remained active when the operation was announced, with the majority of users in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia and Serbia.
More than 800 people have been arrested from this operation so far, but the number is expected to increase in the coming days. /Periscope
