Law enforcement officials announced hundreds of arrests around the globe and revealed a secure messaging system was actually controlled by the FBI. Users of a communications network called Anom ...

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 ...

In one of the more unusual cybersecurity policing stories of the past year, the FBI announced in June that it had created its own company, called ANOM, to sell devices with a pre-installed encrypted ...

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 ...

In bamboozling criminal networks into embracing a bogus encrypted messaging app, police relied on cutting-edge tech to outflank gangsters. While ANOM illustrated the huge role played by new ...

More than 800 suspected criminals have been arrested worldwide after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, officials say. The operation, jointly conceived by Australia and the ...

Law enforcement agencies from three continents on Tuesday revealed a vast FBI-led sting operation that sold thousands of supposedly encrypted ANOM mobile phones to criminal organisations and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drug dealers in the UK are among hundreds of people arrested after criminal gangs were duped into using an app being watched by ...