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Police raids around world after investigators crack An0m cryptophone app in major hacking operation
Police in 16 countries carried out raids on after Australian Police and the FBI cracked an encrypted AN0M communications network used by crime groups
Drug deals and other criminal groups in the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US were sending messages on an encrypted communications network, unaware that it was being run the FBI.
The network, known as AN0M, offered encrypted Android phones and an encrypted computer platform that claimed to offer its users secure communications.
Europol described the operation, which it said targeted some of the world’s foremost criminals, as the “most sophisticated effort to date to disrupt the activities of criminals operating from all four corners of the world.”
The An0n network was cracked by a technical expert of Australian Federal Police (AFP), who developed a “trojan horse app” that was able to decrypt messages and read them in real time.
The Australian Federal Police said that investigators were able to monitor 25 million messages from criminal groups involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and murder.
Nick Ryan, assistant commissioner told news.co.au that investigators had “insight into every criminal’s dealings.”
Criminals, described by the police as high-level targets, spoke openly on the platform about drug offending, money laundering and murders.
The project, codenamed Operation Ironside by the Australian police, was the equivalent of carrying out 20 years of policing in only two months, said Ryan.
Detective Superintendent Des Appelby said: “Ironside is the biggest job I’ve ever undertaken. Its huge in scope. It’s like 16 major investigators all put together as one big job across Australia and across the world.”
Sixteen countries took part in a co-ordinated operation against criminals using AN0M, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada the UK, Scotland and the USA.
Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands also took part in the operation.
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