Law enforcement succeeds in cracking 'encrypted messaging apps used by criminal organizations'
While contact networks through smartphones have become indispensable for large criminal organizations, there is also the risk that the entire criminal organization will be leaked from the history and texts left on the smartphone. So criminal organizations are using 'encrypted messaging apps to prevent outsiders from leaking privacy,' but law enforcement agencies in Belgium and the Netherlands have succeeded in
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Cracking the messaging apps used by criminal organizations is important for understanding the structure and connections of criminal organizations and for consolidating suspicions. For this reason, law enforcement agencies have long been trying to crack messaging apps, and in 2020, law enforcement agencies in various European countries succeeded in cracking an encrypted chat app called 'EncroChat.' In response to this, a large-scale search and arrest were carried out from June to July, a large amount of drugs and firearms were confiscated, and a secret torture room hidden in a shipping container was also found.
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Another messaging app called 'Sky ECC ' has gained popularity with the dismantling of EncroChat. Sky ECC is an app that allows you to exchange encrypted messages via a private server, and when installed on your smartphone, it disables your camera, GPS, and microphone to prevent communications from being intercepted.
Messages exchanged through Sky ECC are automatically deleted 30 seconds after opening, and data will not be leaked to the OS or tracking software. Since the app icon is not displayed on the home screen, it is difficult for unrelated people to notice Sky ECC even if they touch the smartphone, and it seems that there was also an 'emergency button' to erase all content in an emergency. is.
It seems that Belgian criminal organizations were switching to Sky ECC shortly before EncroChat was cracked, and more criminal organizations decided to adopt Sky ECC after the dismantling of EncroChat. As of July 2020, the number of users has exceeded 70,000, and it is said that the Dubai organization that has transactions with Belgian criminal organizations also adopted Sky ECC.
Sky ECC, which advocates 'the most secure messaging app in the world,' defends its services by claiming that privacy is a fundamental human right, but from those who oppose it, 'Sky ECC users' More than 90% are criminals. '
Belgian law enforcement agencies were working with Dutch law enforcement agencies in 2020 after discovering Sky ECC on the suspect's smartphone when they seized a container containing cocaine. Authorities who succeeded in cracking Sky ECC broke into the Sky ECC platform in mid-February 2021 and intercepted a huge number of messages sent and received via a private server.
And on March 9, law enforcement agencies in Belgium and the Netherlands seized Sky ECC's servers in a timely manner to search the offices and homes of criminal organizations. More than 1,500 police officers conducted 200 home searches in Belgium, and 75 home searches were also conducted in the Netherlands, and many of the suspects were suspected in Belgium's leading port city,
Law enforcement agencies in both countries have arrested 48 people in Belgium and 43 in the Netherlands, as well as 1.2 million euros (about 155 million yen) in cash, diamonds, jewelery, luxury cars, and 17 He said he had seized tons of cocaine, weapons and police uniforms.
Sky ECC is confident in its security, and the official website also held a challenge to pay $ 5 million (about 540 million yen) to those who succeeded in cracking Sky ECC.
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