Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with a booby-trapped file

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with a booby-trapped file

Updated It is possible to hijack and manipulate Cellebrite's phone-probing software tools by placing a specially crafted file on your handset, it is claimed.


Signal app supremo Moxie Marlinspike said in an advisory on Wednesday that he managed to get his hands on some of Cellebrite's gear, which is typically used by cops, government agents, big biz, and authoritarian regimes to forcibly access the contents of physically seized smartphones.

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Once a device is unlocked by Cellebrite's UFED software, its files and applications can be examined using a ..

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