Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 4/22/23
Encrypted phones boosted busts, Runa Sandvik's rise, Ukraine's blurred cyber lines, Mexico's Pegasus use, Japan's cyber crisis, Gamers' intel threat, Narcissist Teixeira, Healthcare privacy crackdown
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Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones
New Yorker contributing staff writer Ed Caeser walks through how encrypted phones, such as now-disbanded Sky E.C.C. and EncroChat, were coveted by EU criminals, making them a tempting target for law enforcement, who used the intelligence from the surveilled phones to make major criminal busts across the continent.
Despite the networks’ shortcomings, they continued to find customers. The police in the Netherlands and in other countries started looking for weaknesses in the Continent’s two most popular networks: EncroChat and Sky E.C.C. In advertisements, EncroChat claimed that it housed its …
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