Encrypted cellphone app turns tables on complacent criminal networks
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.
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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.
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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, around the world. But one country was off-limits for investigating agents: the United States. While some ...
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