The new Apple smartphones have become an impregnable fortress if used well. A newreport published by Joseph Cox 404 Mediajust revealedinformation about the Israeli company Cellebrite.The latter would no longer be able to hack recent iPhones, which run iOS 17.4 or a later version.
Cellebrite sells hacking services. Of course, she doesn't use these kinds of terms which sound derogatory. She will embellish it by saying that she sells mobile forensic tools, or data collection and analysis solutions, for justice and security purposes. This type of company is normally aimed at government clients, but they generally generate great distrust on the part of users, as many abuses have already been noted.
Common people actually wonder how such a company can operate legally. The goal is literally to be able to hack into every existing system, in order to respond to requests for information, theoretically made by governments. Apple's security teams have been fighting tirelessly for years to make iPhones impenetrable by companies like Cellebrite or NSO (creator of Pegasus).
iPhone security has been greatly improved
Cellebrite can no longer unlock iPhones running iOS 17.4 or later.This represents 87% of iPhones introduced in recent years, and 77% of all active iPhones. At the moment, Cellebrite is behind schedule and can only remotely unlock iPhone XR and iPhone 11 running iOS 17.1 to iOS 17.3.1. Furthermore, it is good to remember that we are only talking about illegal access to the iPhone without the user clicking on an infected link or other.
The report also states that most Android devices are penetrable, except for some, including the Google Pixel 6, 7 and 8. This is not surprising. Google provides the Android system, but manufacturers then adapt it. It is likely that Android's poor reputation in terms of security therefore comes from the manufacturers, because Google for its part can offer a level of security similar to the iPhone. THEThreat Analysis Groupof Google works full timeto combat piracy and government-backed attacks. This is precisely what we are talking about today.It seems that the security advances of Google and Apple have greatly slowed down hackers.
About the author of the Cellebrite report: Joseph Cox of 404 media is an investigative journalist who pushes his investigations to the maximum. It is thanks to him that we discovered thatspying on our smartphones for advertising purposes is not a myth, contrary to what some authority figures have claimed for years.
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