It was supposed to be the underworld’s impenetrable communication tool, a digital safe space to plot crimes ranging from drug trafficking to murder away from the prying eyes of the law. But for nearly ...

The Trojan Shield operation allowed law enforcement to intercept more than 20 million messages from the network criminal organizations came to trust so much that they would often communicate plainly, ...

Authorities in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Europe said Tuesday that they've dealt a huge blow to organized crime after hundreds of criminals were tricked into using a messaging app that was ...

The FBI covertly ran an encrypted communications platform for years that allowed it to intercept 20 million messages from international criminal organizations. Hundreds of arrests have been made ...

Users of a communications network called Anom thought their messages were encrypted and secure from prying eyes. Instead, law enforcement officials said Tuesday, their messages were secretly being ...

The Twitter account previously associated with the ANOM chat app is posting frivolous tweets this week. But, is it an account hijack, as some may wonder? Perhaps not. ANOM was a fake encrypted ...

According to Vice the FBI is using Google Pixel ‘Anom’ phones to catch criminals. But, what the heck is an ‘Anom’ phone? You may be wondering. An ‘Anom’ phone has the Anom messaging app which is ...

More than 800 criminals around the globe have been arrested after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app in the “biggest and most sophisticated crime sting in history”. Social ...

The phones the FBI sold to crooks for a sting operation weren't just running a custom app — it appears the operating system was also tweaked for those goals. Motherboard has obtained one of the "Anom" ...