It was supposed to be the underworld’s impenetrable communication tool, a digital safe space to plot crimes ranging from drug trafficking to murder away from the prying eyes of the law. But for nearly ...

A major sting operation overseen by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led to 28 arrests in Estonia, while at least one suspect is still on the run.

The FBI secretly ran the encrypted messaging platform Anom, which was used by suspected criminal networks, to make more than 800 arrests world-wide. Here’s how law enforcement pulled off the massive ...

ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA RANDY GROSSMAN: "This investigation called Operation Trojan Shield shined a light into the shadowy industry of hardened encrypted devices." ...

In bamboozling criminal networks into embracing a bogus encrypted messaging app, police relied on cutting-edge tech to outflank gangsters. While ANOM illustrated the huge role played by new ...

In one of the more unusual cybersecurity policing stories of the past year, the FBI announced in June that it had created its own company, called ANOM, to sell devices with a pre-installed encrypted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drug dealers in the UK are among hundreds of people arrested after criminal gangs were duped into using an app being watched by ...

The phones the FBI sold to crooks for a sting operation weren't just running a custom app — it appears the operating system was also tweaked for those goals. Motherboard has obtained one of the "Anom" ...

Law enforcement agencies from three continents on Tuesday revealed a vast FBI-led sting operation that sold thousands of supposedly encrypted ANOM mobile phones to criminal organisations and ...