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Cellebrite just spent $200 million on the iPhone virtualization company Apple tried to bury


The deal brings together two powerful forces in the mobile forensics world, and is likely to make Apple sweat.

Today’s $200 million deal brings together two powerful (and controversial) forces in the mobile forensics world, and is likely to make Apple’s challenge of locking down iOS even harder. Wade thinks it’ll help prosecutors show a jury exactly what’s on a criminal’s phone, presenting more compelling evidence compared to screenshots from technical-looking forensic tools.” He says the combined tools could also help detect spyware by using AI to spot “foreign code” running inside a virtual OS, a move that could appeal to both law enforcement and cybersecurity researchers.

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