Israeli Firm Can Now Hack Into Virtually Any Cellphone, Tablet

Tuesday, March 6, 2018
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mon, 03/05/2018

An Israeli firm claims it can now unlock virtually any phone or tablet on the market – including iPhones and Google Android devices, reports Forbes.

Digital forensics firm Cellebrite – which helped the FBI crack iPhone used by the terrorist in the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, offers “Unlocking & Extraction Services” for several devices, including iPhones, iPads and iPods running iOS 5 through 11 – and Android devices including the Samsung Galaxy, Galaxy Note, and other devices running the Google OS such as Alcatel, Nexus, HTC, Huawei, LG, Motorola, ZTE and more. The service costs as low as $1,500 per device.

Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that’s become the U.S. government’s company of choice when it comes to unlocking mobile devices, is this month telling customers its engineers currently have the ability to get around the security of devices running iOS 11 (right up to 11.2.6). That includes the iPhone X, a model that Forbes has learned was successfully raided for data by the Department for Homeland Security back in November 2017, most likely with Cellebrite technology. -Forbes

Founded in 1999 with a headcount of around 500 employees, Cellebrite offers “Advanced Unlocking Services,” and “Advanced Extraction Services” to law enforcement agencies through a network of “secure Cellebrite Forensic Labs (CBFLs) located around the world.” In 2007 the firm was bought for $17.5 million by Japanese manufacturing giant Sun Corp.

“Cellebrite Advanced Unlocking Services is the industry’s only solution for overcoming many types of complex locks on market-leading devices. This can determine or disable the PIN, pattern, password screen locks or passcodes on the latest Apple iOS and Google Android devices,” reads a document published by the firm.

Their Advanced Extraction claims to be “the world’s first and only decrypted physical extraction capability possible for leading Apple iOS and Google Android Services.”

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