Background: Operation Venetic EncroChat was one of the world’s largest encrypted communication services and estimated to have 60000 users across Europe, including 10000 users in the UK. A modified mobile device was provided called an EncroPhone, primarily used to send text or photo messages. These devices each had a unique ‘handler’ name and conversations were […]
Background: Operation Venetic EncroChat was one of the world’s largest encrypted communication services and estimated to have 60000 users across Europe, including 10000 users in the UK. A modified mobile device was provided called an EncroPhone, primarily used to send text or photo messages. These devices each had a unique ‘handler’ name and conversations were […]
British and European Law enforcement agencies gained critical access to crypto-communications among organized crime groups, and significant insight into the manoeuvres and actions of various suspects involved, including many ‘Gangland Untouchables’ who “thought they would never be caught,”. It has dealt a major blow to organized crime groups in the UK and led to seizures […]
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EncroChat unlocked: Gangland Untouchables exposed as police read secret texts of assassins and drug smugglers. This is a landmark moment in the battle between detectives and the criminals and cartels whose antics cause misery across Merseyside. Smashing through the previously impenetrable EncroChat messaging service is one of the biggest breakthroughs in the war on crime this century. […]
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‘Marketed as the “world’s most secure handset,” ,’ banks, online shops, even WhatsApp use end-to-end encryption. What most people will see if they try and hack into the system is jumbled up data which is unintelligible. The phones have two modes; normal operating mode and encryption mode. Operation Venetic was described by the NCA as […]
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Operations were carried out across Europe as a result of police accessing millions of messages sent using the encrypted messaging network, EncroChat. 746 suspected top tier criminals who are believed to be involved in murder, gun smuggling and drug trafficking crimes were arrested, 54 million in cash was seized and 1.45 tons of cocaine seized. […]
‘The gangland figures murdered the hits ordered on EncroChat: How killings of Salford’s ‘Mr Big’ Paul Massey and mob ‘fixer’ John Kinsella were called in using encrypted phone network’. Secret phone system EncroChat was used in some of the UK’s most notorious murders and crimes, it was revealed today. The shadowy underground network used by […]
A wave of arrests were made following a targeted hacking of EncroChat devices. A collaboration between UK, Irish and European Police agencies resulted in a “significant,” number of arrests being made, the seizure of 15 phones using EncroChat software and £360,000 in cash, in what has been described as the “largest and most significant enforcement […]
A huge amount of data has been obtained but it doesn’t necessarily establish criminality. Lawyers, Bankers, Family Offices may also use EncroChat or one of the many alternatives that’s still around. The use of EncroChat platform itself is not illegal; the contents of messages may point to criminality. Encrypted phones termed “modified,” or “hardened,” are […]
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Article by Harewood Law. EncroChat – What Happened? On the 13th June 2020, EncroChat, one of the world’s largest encrypted communication providers, sent a message to its 60,000 subscribers, 10,000 of whom were in the UK, informing them that their protected systems had been compromised. This coincided with the National Crime Agency (NCA) launching “Operation […]
