A karaoke-loving Sydney man allegedly controlled the underworld’s “unhackable” phone network, relied on by gangsters to plot murderous violence and co-ordinate the global drug trade.
The underworld’s “unhackable” phone network, relied on by gangsters to plot murderous violence and co-ordinate the global drug trade, has been infiltrated by Australian Federal Police who have captured the alleged mastermind who ran the network from his Sydney bedroom.
Little is known about the shadowy Administrator, but police sources close to the investigation say he is completely unassuming, nerdy and good with computers.Jay Je-Yoon Jung, the alleged administrator of the Ghost network arrested at his parents’ home in Sydney on Tuesday by the Australian Federal Police.Sources say he is socially awkward, has no girlfriend and does not travel – but loves karaoke.
Police allege that each time he sent out an update, a back-up of the messages was copied to the AFP, leaving more than 125,000 exchanges from the last six months now in the hands of law enforcement. They are a cut above the consumer-grade encrypted technology available through the likes of WhatsApp or Signal, and their price reflects that.
Crucially, it was running on decentralised networks with post-quantum encryption – in simple terms, law enforcement could not hack into Ghost. So as the Administrator allegedly walked gangsters through their tech problems, police say he became acutely aware of the havoc his creation was causing on the streets of Sydney, Melbourne and beyond.Today the Administrator is 32 and, despite his unassuming lifestyle, has allegedly become the IT guy for gangs including the Comancheros, Finks, Mongols and Hells Angels – not to mention the infamous Italian mafias in Victoria and Middle Eastern gangs of Sydney.
Over the following years more major DECD players, including EncroChat, Sky ECC, and Ciphr, were either all destroyed or blocked to Australians following major busts.The AFP and FBI in 2018 secretly developed their own DECD, and used human sources in the underworld to effectively sign criminals on to a flawed system.
For some that no doubt meant meeting in person, patting each other down, checking for police wiretaps. But to infiltrate Ghost the AFP, launching Operation Kraken, had to engineer a virus-like program and get it into the Administrator’s computers. Among them, sources say, are photographs of designer dogs sitting on piles of cash, expensive watches, guns pressed against heads, and even selfies and intimate “dick pics”.The Administrator is not the first person arrested by Kraken investigators. AFP sources say they have intervened in about 50 “threats to life”, which meant arresting both potential attackers and victims from the criminal world.
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The mastermind, the Ghost and the global crime networkA karaoke-loving Sydney man allegedly controlled the underworld’s “unhackable” phone network, relied on by gangsters to plot murderous violence and co-ordinate the global drug trade.
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The mastermind, the Ghost and the global crime networkA karaoke-loving Sydney man allegedly controlled the underworld’s “unhackable” phone network, relied on by gangsters to plot murderous violence and co-ordinate the global drug trade.
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