Australian police infiltrate encrypted messaging app Ghost and arrest dozens | AP News

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• cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

  McCartney said the French had “provided a foot in the door” for Australian police to decrypt Ghost communications.

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

  “In effect, we infected the devices, enabling us to access the content on Australian devices,” McCartney said, adding that the alleged administrator lived in his parents’ Sydney home and had no police record.

  It’s hard to parse what happened here. Sounds like a MITM attack that allowed them to view messages once decrypted by the device?

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  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Concerning that theyre spying on citizens BEFORE knowing what they are talking about.

    5 Eyes continues its horrendous nature,why am I surprised.

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    • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      France isn’t part of Five Eyes.

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  • jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A supply chain attack of some kind. Perhaps the app was distributed via a private store app where the french authorities had some leverage. I wonder if we’ll find out.

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  • Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or the French shared how to infiltratie the server itself.

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