A surveillance operation that covertly harvested text messages from an encrypted phone network allegedly used by criminals and drug dealers relied on technology that frequently failed and often ...

The dad was given a devastating diagnosis and turned to trafficking drugs and firearms to secure the "financial wellbeing of ...

French prosecutors have unlawfully invoked “defence secrecy” to avoid disclosing information about the hacking operation into the EncroChat encrypted phone network, a court heard yesterday. French ...

At a joint press conference on July 2, French and Dutch law enforcement and judicial authorities, along with Europol and Eurojust presented the impressive results of a joint investigation team to ...

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom has touted the takedown of encrypted communications platform EncroChat as its "biggest ever" operation, so far resulting in the arrest of 746 individuals, the ...

The dismantling of an encrypted chat platform used by organized crime gangs (OCGs) has led to 6558 arrests in the past three years, including 197 “high-value targets,” according to Europol. EncroChat ...

Dornan was known by the handle Symbolic-Phone on Encrochat, the court heard A self-confessed drug dealer from Northern Ireland who used encrypted communications platform EncroChat to import cannabis ...

An EncroChat money launderer's collection of high value watches are currently on auction with one limited edition piece valued at more than £150,000. Anthony Kane, 43, used the EncroChat handles ...

A drug dealer's enjoyment of Blue Stilton cheese led to his capture and a sentence of over 13 years in prison. Carl Stewart, a Liverpool resident, was identified after he shared an image of cheese ...

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The authorities said that by hacking into EncroChat, they were able to monitor criminal activity in real time, allowing them to stop drug deals and even murder. By Adam Nossiter PARIS — The police in ...