Europol has disclosed that more than 6,600 individuals have been arrested while $979 million in assets have been seized three years after the disruption of the encrypted mobile communications platform EncroChat in a major European law enforcement operation, reports BleepingComputer. After infiltrating EncroChat in 2020, European law enforcement agencies examined hundreds of millions of conversations among the platform’s nearly 60,000 users to sequester $807 million and freeze another $168 million, while seizing 270 tons of drugs, 971 vehicles, 923 weapons, 271 properties, 83 boats, 68 explosives, and 40 planes, according to Europol.

Source: SC Magazine