EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider that offered modified smartphones allowing encrypted communication among subscribers. It was used primarily by organized crime members to plan criminal activities. Police infiltrated the network between at least March and June 2020 during a Europe-wide investigation.

EncroChat, an encrypted phone network widely used by criminals. Pic: Europol. Police forces across Europe celebrated their infiltration of EncroChat on Thursday, disrupting international organised crime networks which were using the company's encrypted phones.

EncroChat 是一家位于 欧洲 的被用於非法活動的 電信網絡，其包括 硬體 、 作業系統 、 軟體 、 資料傳輸 與 伺服器 [1]。 EncroChat的用戶端是裝有加密傳訊程式的 Android 手機，EncroChat用戶透過EncroChat的伺服器傳送訊息。 而用戶的 Android 手機系統是EncroChat開發的定製版Android系統EncroChat OS。 EncroChat的 伺服器 位於 法國 [1]。 2017年，法國司法機關發現EncroChat手機被一些有組織的罪犯用來當作加密通訊工具。 2020年3月至2020年6月，多國 …

2023年1月4日 · When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe. For a week in October 2020, Christian...

2023年6月27日 · European policing agency Europol said on Tuesday that the takedown of Encrochat, an underground company that offered criminals supposedly secure encrypted communications, led to more than 6,500...

2023年6月27日 · OCGs worldwide illegally used the encryption tool EncroChat for criminal purposes. Since the dismantling, investigators managed to intercept, share and analyse over 115 million criminal conversations, by an estimated number of over 60 000 users.

2020年7月2日 · EncroChat sold encrypted phones with a guarantee of anonymity, with a range of special features to remove identifying information. The phones themselves cost roughly £900 …

2023年6月27日 · OCGs worldwide illegally used the encryption tool EncroChat for criminal purposes. Since the dismantling, investigators managed to intercept, share and analyse over 115 million criminal conversations, by an estimated number of over 60 000 users.

EncroChat设备其实就是一支Android手机，内置了私有的加密通讯程序，通过自家的服务器发送消息，而且手机上完全没有GPS、摄影机、麦克风或USB传输端口等功能，但具备其它特殊能力，像是采用了两个操作系统，可以随时切换成犯罪用模式或是一般用模式；且只要输入特定的PIN码就能移除设备上的内容；只要连续输入错误的密码也会删除所有资料；也能删除对方所收到的内容。 EncroChat手机的售价为1,000欧元，6个月的订阅费用则是1,500欧元，而且在今年初是最受 …

2023年4月28日 · Two crime bosses who conspired to buy and supply heroin, cocaine and guns on encrypted communications platform EncroChat have been jailed. Raj Singh, of Guildford, Surrey, and Waqas Iqbal, of...