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Sneaky Sneaky: FBI Created Company That Sold Encrypted Devices to Organized Crime - Led to 800 Arrests in 16 Countries - Watch Out Soprano Family!! :-)

Posted By: RumorMail
Date: Thursday, 10-Jun-2021 09:42:28
www.rumormill.news/174411

It's almost like criminals can't trust the criminal services they rely on.

Not that I know the ends and outs of daily organized criminal life, but I wonder why they chose to trust EncroChat? Had they not heard of Signal?

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From Ars Technica:

Jon Brodkin - 6/8/2021, 12:36 PM

FBI sold phones to organized crime and read 27 million “encrypted” messages

Messages were routed to an FBI-owned server and decrypted with master key.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation created a company that sold encrypted devices to hundreds of organized crime syndicates, resulting in 800 arrests in 16 countries, law-enforcement authorities announced today. The FBI and agencies in other countries intercepted 27 million messages over 18 months before making the arrests in recent days, and more arrests are planned.

The FBI teamed up with Australian Federal Police to target drug trafficking and money laundering. They “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 organized crime, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and international drug trafficking organizations,” Europol said today.

Distribution of the devices began in October 2018. The cellphones sold by the FBI-run company were “procured on the black market” and “performed a single function hidden behind a calculator app: sending encrypted messages and photos,” The New York Times wrote today. The cellphones were “stripped of all normal functions,” with the faux calculator being the only working app. Once users entered a code, they could use the app to send messages that they thought were protected by end-to-end encryption.

“For years, organized crime figures around the globe relied on the devices to orchestrate international drug shipments, coordinate the trafficking of arms and explosives, and discuss contract killings, law enforcement officials said,” the Times wrote. “Users trusted the devices’ security so much that they often laid out their plans not in code, but in plain language.”

Unbeknownst to users, messages were routed to an FBI-owned server and decrypted with a master key controlled by the FBI.

Criminals sought extra security features

The operation was given the names "Trojan Shield" and "Greenlight." Europol called it "one of the largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date in the fight against encrypted criminal activities."

But instead of getting backdoors installed into commonly used products—a step that Apple and other companies resisted because it would undermine security for all users—the FBI simply made and sold encrypted devices and monitored the devices' communications. This was possible in part because criminal syndicates sought specific security features the FBI-run company provided, including remote wipe and duress passwords, Europol said.

FBI monitored messages and attachments

Anom's website currently has a message saying, "This domain has been seized" and that "[l]aw enforcement has been monitoring messages and attachments from the ANØM platform. A number of investigations have been initiated and are ongoing."

Here are more details on the operation from Europol's announcement:

The goal of the new platform was to target global organized crime, drug trafficking, and money laundering organizations, regardless of where they operated, and offer an encrypted device with features sought by the organized 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 culminated in a "series of large-scale law enforcement actions [that] 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," Europol wrote. "Countless spin-off operations will be carried out in the weeks to come."

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