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Encrypted instant messaging app Signal hacked security company Cellebrite a few days ago. The Signal developers showed that the app law enforcement agencies use around the world to extract information from iPhones and Android devices as part of criminal investigations has a few significant security flaws.
Signal discovered that Cellebrite software could be exploited to execute code that would modify reports about the smartphone being analyzed. But the hack could also compromise future and previous Cellebrite reports. Those changes would go unnoticed, so an attacker with access to a machine with Cellebrite software on it could impact digital evidence extraction without risking exposure. Furthermore, Signal indicated that placing content inside a smartphone app that does nothing for the app in question can be used to compromise Cellebrite software.
It turns out Signal’s disclosures had real, immediate, and foreseeable complications.
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Signal’s epic hack of Cellebrite already already has major consequences originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 17:30:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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