Exclusive: Delhi Police has tools to extract data from smartphones, including iPhones Credit: Aditi Agrawal
At least one law enforcement agency in India Delhi Police has the tools to extract data from locked smartphones, including iPhones. However, the effectiveness and success rate of such tools remains under question.
There has been amplereportage about how American law enforcement agencies break into smartphones, especially iPhones, but the capabilities of their Indian counterparts have remained shrouded in mystery. The intrigue intensified after revelations that controversial Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group’s spyware was used to target at least 121 Indian citizens.
Tools available to the Delhi Police include tools from Israeli cybersecurity company Cellebrite such as UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) Ultimate and Physical Analyzer that were famously used by FTI Consulting to suggest that Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed Bin Salman had hacked into Jeff