Apple makes it a point with every product announcement to stress security and privacy features. That exact thing happened just a few
weeks ago at Apple’s annual developer event, where the company unveiled
several new privacy-centric features that other companies might not be
able to replicate (because, you know, Android). But iPhone encryption is
only as good as your password. If you don’t use one, or if your
password can be easily guessed, anyone with physical access to your
phone can get into it. Then there are companies out there that
specialize in unlocking mobile devices regardless of how strong the
password is, companies that have been working with law enforcement
agencies to crack devices during investigations.
One of them is Israeli firm Cellebrite, which claims that it can now break into any
iPhone or iPad running on Apple’s latest iOS release, as well as
high-end Android phones. UFED Premium allows the company to extract data
from all iOS and high-end Android devices, the company said. That means
Cellebrite found a weak spot in Apple’s armor that will enable it to
crack any password and extract data from iOS devices. Cellebrite doesn’t
explain on its website how everything works, and this is probably a
costly discovery. But if the company can unlock any iOS or Android
phone, it means the latest versions of each operating system are
susceptible to attacks: However, to unlock an iPhone or Android device,
Cellebrite would need physical access to the phone or tablet in
question.
The product is explicitly targeting law enforcement agencies that would have in their possessions locked mobile devices
they’d need to inspect. That doesn’t mean Cellebrite can perform any
remote breaches into iOS or Android devices, at least not with the help
of this particular tool. The company did make the news a few years ago
for allegedly unlocking an iPhone that belonged to one of the San
Bernardino shooters for the FBI after Apple repeatedly refused requests
to create a backdoor into its devices. Cellebrite, however, was not the
company the FBI hired. A different security company called Grayshift has
also made the news for having been able to unlock password-protected
iPhones with the help of a special GrayKey machine. Apple, however,
managed to block that hack. A similar cat and mouse game will probably
follow for this new Cellebrite tool.
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