The Israeli company Cellebrite, known mainly for the iPhone tampering apps which works with governments worldwide, claims to have developed new software that can "break" any phone running iOS and Android.
The company used Twitter to advertise her latest app, and says it can retrieve any information stored on iPhones or Android devices, as well as data stored in third-party applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook and many more.
The information published on the company's website reveals that Cellebrite can also access data that has already been deleted from each phone or even retrieve information from damaged devices.
“Bypass lock and perform full system file extraction on any iOS device or physical file system extraction (encrypted root files) on many high-end Android devices technologys," reports Cellebrite.
“Access data of third-party applications, talks, messages ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου και συνημμένα, διαγραμμένο περιεχόμενο και πολλά άλλα, αυξήστε τις πιθανότητες να βρείτε τα ενοχοποιητικά αποδεικτικά στοιχεία”.
Cellebrite, which stresses that its offering is only for governments trying to unlock devices used by criminals or terrorists, says its app works fine with Apple devices running iOS 7 through iOS 12.3, and for the majority of Android devices high technology manufactured by Samsung, Huawei, LG, Xiaomi and Motorola.
The Israeli company claims that its applications should not fall into the wrong hands to protect exploits, since smartphone makers would be trying to fix the security gaps.
Apple has already tried to deal with the products hacking by Cellebrite with tons of iOS updates and a new feature that blocks USB connection time on locked iPhones.
It is worth recalling that hacking company had fallen victim to hacking the 2017.