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After SKY ECC, "Ghost", the application used by criminal groups, is broken down, what the authorities discovered

2024-09-18 09:41:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

After SKY ECC, "Ghost", the application used by criminal groups, is

Australian police have cracked Ghost, an encrypted global communications app designed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.

The app's alleged administrator, Jay Je Yoon Jung, 32, appeared in a Sydney court on Wednesday on charges including supporting a criminal organization and benefiting from the proceeds of crime.

Australian police arrested 38 suspects in raids in four states in recent days, while law enforcement agencies were also making arrests in Canada, Sweden, Ireland and Italy, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney said.

"We allege that hundreds of criminals, including Italian organized crime, members of motorcycle gangs, Middle Eastern organized crime and Korean organized crime have used Ghost in Australia and overseas to import illegal drugs and order murder," McCartney told reporters.

Australian police had prevented 50 people from being killed, kidnapped or seriously injured by monitoring threats among 125,000 text messages and 120 video calls since March, Assistant Commissioner Kirsty Schofield said.

Police allege Jung developed the app specifically for criminal use in 2017.

Australia joined a global taskforce led by Europol targeting Ghost in 2022.

Col. Florian Manet, who heads the Technical Department of France's Interior Ministry's National Cyber ??Command, said in a statement released by Australian police that his officers provided technical resources to the task force over several years that helped decrypt communications.

Australian police technicians were able to modify software updates regularly pushed by the administrator, McCartney said./ CNA





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