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The success of worldwide law-enforcement operations this week redefines the way investigators must work - and how legislators, Australia’s included, will need to accommodate them.

The Hague, June 8 Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a messaging app secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said on Tuesday, as they unvei

Hundreds of international criminals were tricked into using an encrypted messaging app secretly controlled by the FBI, exposing their drug smuggling, money laundering, and even planned hits to a sting operation, officials said Tuesday.

The success of worldwide law-enforcement operations this week redefines the way investigators must work - and how legislators, Australia’s included, will need to accommodate them.

When the FBI dismantled an encrypted messaging service based in Canada in 2018, agents noticed users moving to other networks. Instead of following their tracks to rivals, investigators decided on a new tactic: creating their own service. ANOM, a secure-messaging service built by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, launched in October 2019 and solidified its following after authorities took down another rival. Popularity spread by word of mouth. When ANOM was taken down Monday, authoriti...

The FBI began planning a sophisticated sting that led to the arrests of 800 suspected organised criminals in raids around the world three years ago. Police this week carried out hundreds of searches, seized drugs, fire-arms, luxury vehicles and cash in co-ordinated operation across multiple countries. The targets were organised crime groups who had placed their trust in an encrypted phone application called An0m to arrange drug deals, kidnappings, and assassinations. An informer working for the ...

Authorities for months had been monitoring millions of messages about drug smuggling, money laundering and even planned killings.

And the narcotics are getting stronger | Europe

Criminal gangs that used a secure-messaging app called ANOM unwittingly allowed the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop on their conversations.

Software a proof-of-concept for Encryption Act interference.