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FBI carried out a global crime sting by selling devices with encrypted messaging app to criminals India Today Tech The FBI caught over 800 criminals between 2019 and 2021 by introducing an encrypted messaging app called ANOM and taking down other rival platforms used by criminal syndicates. The FBI recruited the collaborator who developed ANOM who engineered the system to give the agency access to any messages being sent. ANOM did not enable the criminals to make calls or browse the internet but for secure messaging.The FBI and other agencies seeded the ANOM phones with suspec...

By MIKE CORDER, NICK PERRY and ELLIOT SPAGATtoday     Law enforcement officials walk past an Operation Trojan Shield logo at a news conference,

Rolling Stone Menu How the FBI Tricked Criminals into Using its Messaging App Hundreds of device users didn’t realize they were carrying the FBI in their back pockets — until they got arrested By United States Department of Justice The days of coordinating criminal activity by beeper and pay phone are long gone. In the twenty-first century, many crime syndicates rely on hardened encrypted devices to discuss their illicit activities. These devices can only be bought from a black-market dealer and can’t make calls or surf the web. Their only job is to send encrypted mess...

A tale of FBI trickery, organized crime, fake phones and millions of spilled secrets Acting U.S. Atty. Randy Grossman speaks at a news conference Tuesday in San Diego. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Print The full extent of an unprecedented FBI effort to beat the criminal underworld at its own encrypted-communications game became clearer Tuesday following a two-day takedown, with some 800 arrests worldwide and San Diego racketeering indictments against 17 high-level targets, according to federal authorities. Dubbed Operation Trojan Shield, the effort was largely led by FBI agents an...

It all started with a California man’s arrest six years ago. Owen Hanson grew up in Redondo Beach. He was a walk-on tight end on the 2004 University of Southern California football team, according to San Diego Union Tribune reporter Kristina Davis. After college, he saw success in real estate development, but the business tanked when the economy crashed in 2007. Then, Hanson ran a sportsbook that he took over from his father’s fishing buddy. But it wasn’t the only business Hanson would run. “It really started out as a sports betting racket and then [Hanson] got more seriously into dr...