Dutch & French police take down Matrix encrypted chat app; 2.3 million messages captured
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch & French police take down Matrix encrypted chat app; 2.3 million messages captured

NL Times  

Dutch and French authorities have cracked another encrypted communication service that criminals allegedly used to communicate with each other. Police were able to intercept over 2.3 million messages and were able to read along with conversations for months. Dutch police said the Matrix app was targeted along with similar encrypted services known by the names Mactrix, Totalsex, X-quantum and Q-Safe. Investigate services made a big impact when they took down SKY ECC, a service with 70,000 users, 11,000 of those being Dutch citizens, in 2021.

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Dutch, French police take down Matrix encrypted message service
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch, French police take down Matrix encrypted message service

Dutch News  

Dutch and French police have taken down a new sophisticated encrypted messaging service known as Matrix, after monitoring messages from potential criminals over the past three months. Matrix was discovered by Dutch police who were looking into the phone of one of the people convicted of murdering journalist Peter R de Vries in 2021. “It was soon clear that the …

Dutch authorities helped crack hundreds of criminals' encrypted phones
1 year, 7 months ago

Dutch authorities helped crack hundreds of criminals' encrypted phones

NL Times  

The Netherlands Forensic Institute and authorities in seven other countries have succeeded in breaking into hundreds of criminals’ encrypted phones. These successes formed part of a European project in which investigative services and companies from eight countries worked together to find ways into encrypted phones of various models. “These days, phones have multiple layers of encryption, and the phones are …

Dutch police hack into criminal chat service; hundreds of suspects
6 years, 4 months ago

Dutch police hack into criminal chat service; hundreds of suspects

NL Times  

The Dutch police made a breakthrough in intercepting encrypted messages between criminals. They gained access to the server of chat app Ironchat and could read messages sent between criminals as they were sent, the police announced on Tuesday afternoon. "With this, the police and the Public Prosecution Service have dealt a blow to criminals who felt safe from the authorities", …

Dutch police manged to gain access to 3.6 million criminal messages
8 years ago

Dutch police manged to gain access to 3.6 million criminal messages

NL Times  

The police and Public Prosecutor now have access to the contents of 3.6 million messages sent through a network of specially customized BlackBerry smartphones. According to the Public Prosecutor, a criminal investigation into Ennetcom was launched after the technology company surfaced in a number of investigations into assassinations. Initially the polcie thought that some 19 thousand people used the Ennetcom …

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