After Apple refused to assist the feds access information on the locked iPhone, the FBI eventually paid over a i thou one thousand dollar to a third-party fellowship for unlocking the shooter's iPhone 5c.
Now, it appears that the federal means volition non accept to create produce Apple over unlocking iPhones since the Israeli mobile forensics theater Cellebrite has reportedly figured out a way to unlock close whatsoever iPhone inward the market, including the latest iPhone X.
Cellebrite, a major safety contractor to the USA police trace enforcement agencies, claims to accept a novel hacking tool for unlocking pretty much every iPhone running iOS xi as well as older versions, Forbes reports.
In its ain literature [PDF] "Advanced Unlocking as well as Extraction Services," Cellebrite says its services tin intermission the safety of "Apple iOS devices as well as operating systems, including iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, iPad Pro as well as iPod touch, running iOS five to iOS 11."
Citing anonymous sources, the publication reported that Cellebrite could also unlock the iPhone 8, as well as since the safety across Apple's newest iPhone devices worked inward much the same way, the fellowship tin intermission the safety of the iPhone X every bit well.
Besides Apple's devices, Cellebrite tin also intermission into Google Android-powered smartphones from Samsung (Galaxy as well as Note series), Alcatel, Google Nexus, HTC, Huawei, LG, Motorola, ZTE as well as many more.
"Cellebrite Advanced Unlocking Services is the industry's exclusively solution for overcoming many types of complex locks on market-leading devices," Cellebrite literature explains.
"This tin create upwardly one's heed or disable the PIN, pattern, password covert locks or passcodes on the latest Apple iOS as well as Google Android devices."Last November, the Department of Homeland Security reportedly managed to larn into an iPhone X owned past times a suspect inward an arms trafficking case, belike alongside the assist of a Cellebrite-trained specialist.
However, a warrant discovered past times Forbes does non advert the method or technology used past times police trace enforcement to hack into the iPhone X.
Founded inward 1999, Cellebrite provides digital forensics tools as well as software for mobile phones to its customers, which also includes the United States of America government.
One of its principal products is the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) that claims to assist investigators extract all information as well as passwords from mobile phones.
While the Cellebrite's iPhone hacking tool has the potential to touching hundreds of millions of Apple users, Apple also rolls out software updates as well as patches on a regular basis.
So users are advised to continue their devices up-to-date, every bit its difficult to tell if the company's hacks operate on the latest updates of iOS 11.
Neither Cellebrite nor Apple forthwith commented on the latest report.
