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How does Cellebrite work, is it just a glorified backup maker and parser? How does it hack phones? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Is it much different than something like iMazing?

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[–] twjolson@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Cellebrite had a couple products, and they work different.

UFED basically is a backup creator. It use to do more, but Apple and Google security are so go, they basically only use the communication method available in the phone.

Their premium product, Inseyets UFED, is more capable. It uses unknown exploits to accomplish several objectives on the phone - from gaining access to run other exploits, to gaining access to the full file system.

How do the exploits work? No one outside cellebrite knows. If those details got out, the explicit would get patched, and cellebrite would have to find another exploit.