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ANOM DEVELOPED_BY Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI's Acting U.S. Attorney says the FBI developed its own hardened encrypted device company called Anom.
Attributed Confidence 99% · Randy Grossman EP 146 Details
“the FBI developed and operated its own hardened encrypted device company called Anom”
Joseph says Anom was created by Afgoo, whom he characterizes as a criminal-underground technology expert.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Anom was created by someone called Afgoo.”
Operation Trojan Shield INVOLVES Department of Justice
The operation involved DOJ officials in decisions about access to U.S. communications and wiretap approval.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“higher-ups at the DOJ shut that down, essentially.”
Operation Trojan Shield INVOLVES ANOM
Operation Trojan Shield is identified as the worldwide operation involving Anom devices and services.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Randy Grossman EP 146 Details
“This investigation, called Operation Trojan Shield, shined a light into the shadowy industry of hardened encrypted devices.”
Operation Trojan Shield INVOLVES Australian Federal Police
The campaign involved the Australian Federal Police as an international partner in the operation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 146 Details
“The FBI and AFP, Australian Federal Police, got access to all the encrypted messages going across Anom.”
Fast and Furious INVOLVES Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Jack describes Fast and Furious as an ATF operation involving weapons deals with criminals.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 146 Details
“This was a real operation done by the ATF, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, where they set up weapons deals with criminals”
Fast and Furious LEADS_TO Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Jack says the operation went wrong and resulted in criticism that the ATF acted without proper strategy or oversight.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 146 Details
“it showed how the ATF was operating without proper strategy or oversight or following policies put in place.”
Jason Kebler MEMBER_OF 404 Media
Jason Kebler is identified as one of the four people comprising 404 Media.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“404 is a group of four of us; myself, Jason Kebler, Emanuel Maiberg, and Samantha Cole”
Emanuel Maiberg MEMBER_OF 404 Media
Emanuel Maiberg is identified as one of the four people comprising 404 Media.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Jason Kebler, Emanuel Maiberg, and Samantha Cole”
Joseph Cox MEMBER_OF 404 Media
Joseph says he is a co-founder and journalist at 404 Media.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“I’m also a co-founder and journalist at 404 Media.”
Samantha Cole MEMBER_OF 404 Media
Samantha Cole is identified as one of the four people comprising 404 Media.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Jason Kebler, Emanuel Maiberg, and Samantha Cole”
Joseph Cox REFERENCES Dark Wire
Joseph's interview and Jack's recommendation center on Joseph's book Dark Wire.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 146 Details
“you should do yourself a favor and go read Dark Wire by Joseph Cox.”
Sky hack RELATED_TO Operation Trojan Shield
Joseph groups the Sky hack with Anom and EncroChat as continuing law-enforcement efforts against encrypted communications.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“As well as Anom, there was the Sky hack”
EncroChat hack RELATED_TO Operation Trojan Shield
Joseph groups the EncroChat hack with Anom and Sky as continuing law-enforcement efforts against encrypted communications.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“As well as Anom, there was the Sky hack, there was the EncroChat hack as well.”
ANOM USES remote wipe
Joseph says Anom included phone-wiping functionality.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Anom had all of those sorts of bells and whistles you would expect; wiping the phone”
Operation Trojan Shield USES Parallel construction
The episode says law enforcement used parallel construction to conceal that Anom intelligence led to enforcement actions.
Derived Confidence 96% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“That’s basically parallel construction.”
Weeping Angel USES Fake Off
The spyware relies on the TV's Fake Off mode to keep the microphone active while the TV appears to be off.
Derived Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 146 Details
“The TV sits there, recording all the audio in the room, but appears to be off.”
The Hola iBot interface is compared to a Maltego-style interface.
Derived Confidence 90% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“It’s almost like a Maltego sort of interface.”
ANOM USES End-to-end encryption
Anom included a communications app that allowed users to send end-to-end encrypted messages.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“It had a secure communications app that allows you to send end-to-end encrypted messages”
ANOM USES Man-in-the-middle
Anom secretly added a ghost contact to every conversation and sent it a copy of each message, functioning as a man-in-the-middle surveillance mechanism.
Derived Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Anom basically created a ghost contact that was added to every conversation, and it received a blind carbon copy, a BCC, of every message sent across the platform.”
GrapheneOS VARIANT_OF Android
GrapheneOS is described as a fork of Android.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 146 Details
“GrapheneOS, which is a fork of Android.”
ANOM VARIANT_OF GrapheneOS
Joseph says Anom's custom phone operating system was, apparently, a fork of GrapheneOS.
Uncertain Confidence 78% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Apparently Anom had also removed all GPS functionality”
Tornado Cash ASSOCIATED_WITH DAO
Tornado Cash is described as operating as a decentralized autonomous organization after its apparent creators stepped back.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“It’s running on its own, the Tornado Cash DAO”
“Tornado Cash was one of these DAOs”
Tornado Cash ASSOCIATED_WITH North Korea
The US government claimed or believed that Tornado Cash was working for North Korea; this was presented as an allegation rather than an established fact.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“this mixer, this Tornado Cash mixer, is working for the North Koreans, we believe, we claim”
Axie Infinity ATTRIBUTED_TO North Korea
The Axie Infinity hack was attributed to North Korea, but Geoff explicitly presents this as an allegation and North Korea denies involvement.
Uncertain Confidence 93% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“very quickly, the name that pops into the frame is North Korea”
“these are allegations. North Korea denies these allegations”