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Taking selfie with 'official sensitive' doc wasn't smartest idea, either A British court has sentenced a "corrupt" cop to almost four years behind bars for tipping off a friend that officers had compromised the EncroChat encrypted messaging app network.…
Graham Cluley
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-free secure communications". But investigators managed to gain full control of EncroChat's infrastructure, and could read users' supposedly-encrypted messages in real-time.
The Register
Eurocop op cracking crims' chat app causes clink time and cash confiscation Police breaking into and snooping on the EncroChat encrypted messaging network has led to 6,558 arrests worldwide and nearly €740 million seized in criminal funds, according to cops in France and the Netherlands.…
Bleeping Computer
Europol announced today that the takedown of the EncroChat encrypted mobile communications platform has led to the arrest of over 6,600 people and the seizure of $979 million in illicit funds. [...]
The Hacker News
Europol on Tuesday announced that the takedown of EncroChat in July 2020 led to 6,558 arrests worldwide and the seizure of €900 million in illicit criminal proceeds. The law enforcement agency said that a subsequent joint investigation initiated by French and Dutch authorities intercepted and analyzed over 115 million conversations that took place over the encrypted messaging platform between no
The Register
But tribunal punts on whether data was intercepted in transit The UK's National Crime Agency has partially won an important legal battle in a case that challenged the warrants used to obtain messages from cyber crook hangout EncroChat.…
The Register
Good luck finding public support for that one Lawyers for EncroChat encrypted phone users have begged the EU to halt court cases using evidence from the compromised mobile network, saying evidence disclosure breaches the political bloc's laws.…
The Register
ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns The US government is offering bounties up to $15 million as a reward for anyone willing to help it take out the APLHV/Blackcat ransomware gang.… infosec in brief
Graham Cluley
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 security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Rico Acosta, IT manager at Bitwarden.