The FBI secretly set up the encrypted communications platform Anom in a wide-ranging sting operation, yielding more than 800 arrests in 16 countries of alleged members of international criminal organizations who used it to communicate
In a series of coordinated raids around the world, police agencies rounded up hundreds of suspected members of crime networks who had forged their plans on an encrypted communications platform secretly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In the wide-ranging sting operation dubbed “Operation Trojan Shield,” an international coalition of law-enforcement agencies led by the FBI secretly ran the encrypted communications platform Anom. Hundreds of alleged members of international criminal organizations adopted the platform as a means to communicate securely, unaware that authorities were using their covert access to monitor 27 million messages from more than 12,000 users across more than 100 countries, officials said.
The sting was revealed this week in a series of news conferences by authorities in the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Investigators in that office have since 2018 been involved in running Anom, which makes and distributes secure, encrypted mobile devices that have grown popular among criminals in recent years.
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