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Trojan Shield: FBI Secure-Phone Sting Nets More than 800 Arrests Worldwide
By Bill Chappell
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How the FBI's Trojan Shield operation exposed a criminal underworld
By Hannah Murphy
Spy phones 'in gangsters' back pockets' betray hundreds to police
By Toby Sterling & Colin Packham
Massive drug sting: 800 arrested, 2 tons of meth, 8 tons of cocaine, and 22 tons of marijuana seized
By Tony Keith
The FBI secretly launched an encrypted messaging system for criminals
By Adi Robertson
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Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots
By Simon Sharwood
The FBI Secretly Ran the Anom Messaging Platform, Yielding Hundreds of Arrests in Global Sting
By Byron Tau & James Marson
For years, the underworld thought its phones were safe. They fell for an encrypted app trap
By Ben Westcott
A tale of FBI trickery, organized crime, fake phones and millions of spilled secrets
By Kristina Davis
Australia's largest ever crime sting shows messages Aussie drug lords sent
By Alana Mazzoni & Levi Parsons
How an app to decrypt criminal messages was born 'over a few beers' with the FBI
By DAVID JOHN. TUFFLEY
Anom app designed by FBI ensnares alleged criminals as police make more than 800 arrests
By Rachel Pannett & Michael Birnbaum
Hundreds arrested worldwide in Trojan Shield organised crime sting
By Michael Peel & Jamie Smyth
How the FBI and Australian police gained a front seat view of underworld workings in 90 countries
By Nino Bucci
Fake encrypted app cooked up over beers by Aussie cops and the FBI leads to global sting
By Daniel Piotrowski, Ross Ibbetson & Alana Mazzoni