The FBI released the below information on Operation Trojan Shield:
Criminal organizations that
rely on hardened, stripped-down devices to send encrypted messages may learn
this week they have been using a platform operated by the very investigators
they are trying to thwart.
In an innovative effort, the FBI,
with the help of the Australian Federal Police, launched their own encrypted
communications platform and supplied more than 12,000 devices to hundreds of
criminal organizations that operate around the globe.
The FBI, along with the Drug
Enforcement Administration, Australian Federal Police, Europol, and law
enforcement partners in more than a dozen countries, are announcing the results
of that covert effort, known as Operation Trojan Shield. In recent days and
weeks, authorities have carried out hundreds of arrests in Australia and across
Europe as a result of intelligence gathered during the operation. Law
enforcement has also been able to mitigate direct threat-to-life situations.
The FBI’s San Diego Field Office
was the hub for the more than 100 agents and analysts and 80 linguists who were
pooled together for the operation that began with the takedown of the encrypted
phone provider Phantom Secure.
In 2018, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of
California pursued charges against the company’s executives for facilitating
the transnational importation and distribution of narcotics by providing
encrypted devices to criminals.
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