{"id":43967,"date":"2021-06-08T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43967"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:51:45","slug":"police-arrest-800-people-using-fbi-built-encrypted-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/police-arrest-800-people-using-fbi-built-encrypted-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 800 people using FBI-built encrypted app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a sprawling international operation, law enforcement arrested about 800 suspects in connection with a range of crimes. To identify them, the FBI, together with Australian police, developed a special encrypted app.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Operation Trojan Shield\/OTF Greenlight in numbers:<\/p>\n<p>\u2714\ufe0f 27 million \ud83d\udce9 reviewed<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f 700 house searches \ud83c\udfda\ufe0f<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f 800 arrests \ud83d\ude94<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f +30 tons of drugs seized<\/p>\n<p>More details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/odnXlqtjUe\">https:\/\/t.co\/odnXlqtjUe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OperationTrojanShield?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OperationTrojanShield<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LbJmANiLcD\">pic.twitter.com\/LbJmANiLcD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Europol (@Europol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Europol\/status\/1402200741125758983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, the FBI and Australian authorities secretly ran a company that manufactured phones pre-installed with an encrypted-messaging app, ANOM.<\/p>\n<p>The devices were distributed among members of criminal organisations. In total, over 12,000 phones were produced and used by criminals in hundreds of countries.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement monitored all messages and reviewed 27 million messages, helping identify criminals and track their activities.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, more than 700 searches were conducted in 16 countries, and tonnes of drugs, weapons, and vehicles, and more than $48 million in fiat and cryptocurrencies were seized.<\/p>\n<p>Europol called it &#8220;one of the largest and most complex operations by law enforcement to combat encrypted criminal activity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In March, authorities reported the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/double-standards-from-apple-biometric-data-collection-in-russia-and-other-cybersecurity-developments\">breach of the encrypted-messaging platform<\/a> Sky ECC.<\/p>\n<p>For more on how governments are seeking to counter end-to-end encryption used in messaging apps, read ForkLog.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sprawling international operation, law enforcement arrested around 800 suspects in connection with various crimes. 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