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For years, the underworld thought its phones were safe. They fell for an encrypted app trap
By Ben Westcott
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Phantom Secure Takedown — FBI
How an informant and a messaging app led to huge global crime sting
By Tom Allard
Massive drug sting: 800 arrested, 2 tons of meth, 8 tons of cocaine, and 22 tons of marijuana seized
By Tony Keith
How the FBI's Trojan Shield operation exposed a criminal underworld
By Hannah Murphy
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The FBI Secretly Ran the Anom Messaging Platform, Yielding Hundreds of Arrests in Global Sting
By Byron Tau & James Marson
FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld
By Iain Thomson
Fake encrypted app cooked up over beers by Aussie cops and the FBI leads to global sting
By Alana Mazzoni, Daniel Piotrowski & Ross Ibbetson
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
Spy phones 'in gangsters' back pockets' betray hundreds to police
By Toby Sterling & Colin Packham
How the FBI and Australian police gained a front seat view of underworld workings in 90 countries
By Nino Bucci
Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots
By Simon Sharwood
Australia's largest ever crime sting shows messages Aussie drug lords sent
By Alana Mazzoni & Levi Parsons