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Over the past couple of years, the US government -- working with law enforcement agencies around the world -- has managed to shut down...

Not a great week for the FBI, encryption-wise. The same week it was revealed the FBI's encrypted communications system was cracked...

Cross-linked news, and information resources about smugglers

Simon Parkin reports on the encrypted messaging service used by criminals around the world

Q. Can the Australian Federal Police/Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission take over my social media account? To take control of an online account...

Criminals became so entrusting of the app that they stopped using code words and even posted selfies of themselves with the drugs they were smuggling.

A multimillion-rand cocaine crackdown in SA is linked to high-level investigations in the US and Australia involving multinational criminals and encrypted communication devices.

The Naked City podcast will take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld. In this series you will hear recordings of some of Australias most dangerous criminals, all of whom have been remarkably frank in their recollections. Any police intelligence officer knows there is only one iron law. To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. And the best way is to listen to them. Loading Police have listened at keyholes, peered through windows, employed lip readers, use...

Anom devices were active in more than 100 countries. — Courtesy of US Department of Justice/TNS SAN DIEGO: In 2018, a San Diego-led federal sting secretly launched an encrypted communications company. Over the next few years, FBI agents, working with law enforcement partners in Australia, New Zealand and Europe, seeded thousands of spyware-infected phones into the hands of criminals and used them to build cases against 300 organised crime groups, from biker gangs to Italian mafia cells, aroun...

By Paul HandleyAgence France-PresseWASHINGTON — One drug trafficker texted another that he had a "job" and a proven way to get it done: 2 kilogrammes of cocaine from Bogota using the French embassy's protected diplomatic pouchThe pair were straightforward, because they were using the newest, safest mode of communicating: A special-purpose, highly encrypted, messaging-only