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Ironside · Greenlight · 8 June 2021
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Operation Trojan Shield (USA), also known as
Operation Task Force Greenlight (Europe) and Operation Ironside
(AU/NZ), was a joint covert operation of the law enforcement
agencies of 16 countries,
in which serious organised crime was attacked in
an unprecedented way. By supplying criminals with tampered smartphones,
in combination with the FBI-controlled ANOM network and cutting-edge
software developed by the Australian AFP,
the police was able to read the trusted communication of 12,000 smartphones
of more than 300 criminal organisations worldwide [5].
The operation was launched in 2018 and was led by the American FBI.
Rather than hacking into an existing messaging service – like it was done
with Phantom Secure and EncroChat – the FBI took control of small
company called 'ANOM', and turned it into a worldwide operating honeypot.
After the Canadian secure telephone service Phantom Secure had
been taken down by the FBI [6], it was anticipated that the
criminal world would soon be looking for alternative solutions.
It is then that they decided to take over ANOM.
The interest in ANOM was initially
small, starting with just 50 devices in an Australian beta test
in October 2018, but the police soon discovered that all devices
were used for criminal activities. The penetration of ANOM devices
increased in mid-2019, and accelerated further after the European
Police first took down EncroChat in June 2020 and then
Sky ECC in March 2021 [7][8].
By May 2021, approx. 11,880 ANOM devices had been released,
9000 of which were actively being used.
The sting operation culminated in a large number of location
searches executed simultaneously around the globe on 7 and 8 June 2021.
In the operation, the FBI worked closely together with the Australian
AFP and, from October 2019, with the police organisations of
14 EUROPOL countries, led by the Netherlands and Sweden.
In total, the police intercepted more than 27 million encrypted messages,
enough for several years worth of investigations.
The operation was revealed to the public in press conferences on
8 June 2021 [1]. It was also revealed that the ANOM software had
been developed by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and that
the Dutch National Police (KLPD)
had developed special software tools for the identification of
suspects and for filtering and analysis of the vast amount of data.
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- Computers
- Mobile phones
- Weapons
- Cars
- Jewelry
Cash > US$ 48 million Drugs > 32 tons Luxury cars 55
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Below is a list of the 16 countries that took part in the investigation.
The leading countries are listed in bold. The initiating countries are
listed in red. The European countries are
joined in the the EUROPOL police organisation.
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Country
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Organisation
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Arrests
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LS 1
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DL 2
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PM 3
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SW 4
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M$ 5
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AU
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Austrialia
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AFP
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224
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525
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6
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21
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104
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4.5
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AU
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Austria
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CA
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Canada
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RCMP
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DE
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Denmark
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EE
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Estonia
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FI
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Finland
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PoF
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~100
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DE
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Germany
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BKA
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>70
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>150
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HU
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Hungary
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LT
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Lithuania
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NZ
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New Zealand
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NZP
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35
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37
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4
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1+3.7
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NL
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Netherlands
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KLPD
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49
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25
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8
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1.9
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NO
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Norway
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Kripos
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7
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SC
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Scotland
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SE
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Sweden
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SPA
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155
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>10
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UK
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United Kingdom
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NCA
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US
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USA
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FBI,
FDA
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Total
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>800
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>700
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250
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48
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Locations that were searched.
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Drugs locations that were dismantled.
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Estimated number of planned murders and liquidation that
are have been prevented by this operation.
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Number of weapons seized
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Confiscated cash (+goods) in the equivalent of Millions of US Dollars.
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Operation Trojan Shield USA, FBI OTF Greenlight Europe, Europol Operation Ironside Australia, New Zealand
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2018 Phantom Secure (CA, RCMP) 2020 Encrochat (NL, FR, Europol) 2021 Sky ECC (NL, BE, FR, Europol)
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- Europol, Operation Trojan Shield/OTF Greenlight
YouTube, EUROPOL, 8 June 2021.
- Europol, 800 criminals arrested in biggest ever law enforcement operation against encrypted communication
Press release, 8 June 2021.
- Joseph Cox, Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals
Motherboard, 8 June 2021.
- NOS, Politie luisterde in talloze landen criminelen af via zelfverkochte telefoons
NOS website, 7 June 2021.
- Wikipedia, ANOM sting operation
Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- Wikipedia, Phantom Secure
Retreived 8 June 2021.
- Wikipedia, EncroChat
Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- Wikipedia, Sky Global
Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ANOM website
Retrieved 8 June 2021.
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