iPhone and Android hacking tech, designed to be used by police in critical investigations, is selling secondhand on eBay
When eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K., he came across an odd-looking device. Easily mistaken for a child's tablet, it had the word Cellebrite written on it. To Mr. Balaj, it appeared a worthless piece of electronic flotsam, so he left it in his garage to gather dust for eight months.
Cellebrite isn’t happy about those secondhand sales. On Tuesday, two sources from the forensics industry passeda letter from Cellebrite warning customers about reselling its hugely popular hacking devices as they could be used to access individuals’ private data. Rather than returning the UFEDs to Cellebrite so they can be properly decommissioned, it appears police or other individuals who’ve acquired the machines are flogging them and failing to properly wipe them.
The tools may also contain the software vulnerabilities Cellebrite keeps secret from the likes of Apple and Google, said Hickey. Cellebrite’s exploits were encrypted, but the keys should be extractable from the UFED, though Hickey hasn’t had success on the tools he bought.reported in March last year, Cellebrite had become so adept at finding iOS flaws that it was
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