How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about what would happen if the US government secretly broke into people’s encrypted communications. The weird thing, though, is that, in 2018, it already happened...

How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about what would happen if the US government secretly broke into people’s encrypted communications. The weird thing, though, is that, in 2018, it already happened...

Operation BULUT: Encrypted Chats from Sky ECC, ANOM Lead to 232 Arrests

Intelligence from encrypted platforms like Sky ECC and ANOM has led to the arrest of 232 individuals and…...

Analysis of the FBI’s Anom Phone

Motherboard got its hands on one of those Anom phones that were really FBI honeypots. The details are interesting...

Google Won't Kill the URL After All

Plus: A Colonial Pipeline update, inside details of the FBI's Anom caper, and more of the week's top security news...

The FBI's Anom Stunt Rattles the Encryption Debate

The agency spent years running a secure phone network for criminals. So much for “going dark.”...

U.S. Authorities Shut Down Slilpp—Largest Marketplace for Stolen Logins

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ Thursday said it disrupted and took down the infrastructure of an underground marketplace known as "Slilpp" that specialized in trading stolen login credentials as part of an international law enforcement operation. Over a dozen individuals have been charged or...

800+ criminals arrested after FBI turned Anom app into honeypot

By Waqas The FBI took control of the encrypted communication platform Anom app in 2018 and transformed it into a large-scale honeypot. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 800+ criminals arrested after FBI turned Anom app into honeypot...

Feds Secretly Ran a Fake Encrypted Chat App and Busted Over 800 Criminals

In an unprecedented sting operation, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Australian Federal Police AFP ran an encrypted chat service called ANoM for nearly three years to intercept 27 million messages exchanged between criminal gang members globally. Dubbed Operation Ironside AFP,...