Security News > 2021 > December > Twitter account of FBI's fake chat app, ANOM seen trolling today
The Twitter account previously associated with the ANOM chat app is posting frivolous tweets this week.
ANOM was a fake encrypted messaging platform created as part of a global sting operation led by the U.S. FBI, Australian Federal Police, and other law enforcement agencies to catch criminals.
During this time, the FBI, AFP, Europol, and various law enforcement agencies collaborated to create a fake encrypted messaging platform called Anom that was sold exclusively to criminals.
After reviewing 27 million messages where criminals discussed their activities on the Anom platform, law enforcement was able to arrest 800 people and seize 8 tons of cocaine, 22 tons of cannabis and cannabis resin, 2 tons of synthetic drugs, 6 tons of synthetic drugs precursors, 250 firearms, 55 luxury vehicles and over $48 million in various worldwide currencies and cryptocurrencies.
Around the same time, as Operation Ironside was being made public knowledge, the anom.io domain was set to display a "Domain seized" notice by the law enforcement agencies, which is still up today.
BleepingComputer has reached out to multiple law enforcement agencies associated with ANOM for comment and we are awaiting their response.