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Back in 2020, law enforcement agents across Europe had a major breakthrough in their fight against organised crime. They managed to crack into EncroChat – a secure encrypted messaging service which ran on modified Android phones, that promised “worry-… Continue reading Busted ‘secure’ EncroChat messaging service leads to over 6,500 arrests by police
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As part of Operation Emma, which was initiated in July 2020, the shutdown of EncroChat aimed to curb cybercrime in Europe and beyond.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Seizure of EncroChat Enables Police Access to 115 Mi… Continue reading Seizure of EncroChat Enables Police Access to 115 Million Conversations
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Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put the Lensa AI’s avatar-generation tool under the microscope.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer s… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob
A big cheese ends up in jail, a Japanese dating site spills the dirt after a hack, and we learn all about the right to repair.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security vet… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #229: Dating leaks, right to repair, and a stinky bishop
Breached encrypted messaging tools increasingly seem to provide European law enforcement agencies with a kind of roadmap to high profile drug busts. Belgium’s Federal Police force on Monday said they had seized nearly 28 tons of cocaine with a street value of 1.4 billion euros ($1.65 billion) after officials accessed an encrypted messaging service, as CNN first reported. The activity came after police said in March they had decrypted half a billion messages sent via the Sky ECC service, and arrested 48 people. The cocaine seizure appears to be the result of that initial investigation, as officials say they spent weeks tracking messages and gathering information about cocaine shipments before intercepting packages at the port of Antwerp. It was only the latest example of European police accessing hard-to-crack technology to collect evidence about suspected criminals, though. Dutch police working with French officials last year broke into another messaging service, EncroChat, […]
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Breached encrypted messaging tools increasingly seem to provide European law enforcement agencies with a kind of roadmap to high profile drug busts. Belgium’s Federal Police force on Monday said they had seized nearly 28 tons of cocaine with a street value of 1.4 billion euros ($1.65 billion) after officials accessed an encrypted messaging service, as CNN first reported. The activity came after police said in March they had decrypted half a billion messages sent via the Sky ECC service, and arrested 48 people. The cocaine seizure appears to be the result of that initial investigation, as officials say they spent weeks tracking messages and gathering information about cocaine shipments before intercepting packages at the port of Antwerp. It was only the latest example of European police accessing hard-to-crack technology to collect evidence about suspected criminals, though. Dutch police working with French officials last year broke into another messaging service, EncroChat, […]
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Since when does law enforcement attacking a commercial encryption phone and software company constitute news? Keep reading.It appears that for a while the news was a buzz with law enforcement managing to obtain access to the primary domain that used to… Continue reading Encrochat “Bites the Dust”? Think Twice
A joint operation headed by European and British law agencies dismantled the Encrochat messaging service, leading to the arrests of more than 100 people as well as the seizure of numerous weapons and ammunitions, drugs and millions in criminal funds. E… Continue reading European Agencies Hack Criminal Encrochat Messaging System
Four-year investigation shuts down EncroChat and busts 746 alleged criminals for planning murders, selling drugs and laundering money. Continue reading E.U. Authorities Crack Encryption of Massive Criminal and Murder Network