Cellebrite Can Crack iPhones on iOS 11 – Is It Definitely True?

13 March, 2018, by Gregory Wang

Recently, Cellebrite has claimed that it has enough power to crack any iPhone model which is updated to iOS 11. Cellebrite is an Israeli company that provides military, law enforcement and enterprise customers with the effective solutions that concern analytics, triage, and digital forensics. According to Forbes, at the end of the previous year Cellebrite`s iPhones iOS 11 hackers found the method to circumvent the security measures of the latest release of the iOS mobile operating system, which was tested on iPhone X. The United States Department of Homeland Security also joined this campaign.

Such news will definitely impress not only private businesses but also government agencies. However, the consumer data is put at risk. It is interesting to know that Cellebrite doesn`t talk directly about the iOS 11 shortcomings that can make such complicated hack possible. It just advertises its findings to the special state security forces all over the world. It is also said that Cellebrite has all the necessary skills to unlock all Apple devices that run iOS. Forbes was informed that law enforcement officers have already asked Cellebrite to extract some valuable data from iPhone 8. However, the reasons of such drastic measures remained unknown.

Nevertheless, we still don`t know which version of iOS 11 Cellebrite can exactly crack. And that`s completely possible that Apple has done its best to remove all the disadvantages that were found by Cellebrite. Hopefully, all required fixes are available in the recent update of iOS.

We hope that you have already understood how it is important to update your favorite gadget to the latest version of iOS in order not to compromise its safety. You should be confident that all the latest security fixes are working efficiently. And by the way, somebody should pay a great amount of money to get your iPhone cracked by Cellebrite`s hackers. What is more, such service is possible on condition that there will be a physical access to your device. So, iPhone casual users are not likely to become Cellebrite`s victims for no reason.