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 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 ...

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 ...

In the "largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date," a joint international law enforcement created a fake end-to-end encrypted chat platform designed solely to catch criminals.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...