The U.S. government’s go-to hackers-for-hire for breaking into locked Apple iPhones are planning to help crack another difficult nut: Google’s Android operating system
Share to twitterApple iPhones can be raided for data by U.S. law enforcement thanks to Grayshift's GrayKey, even if the company can't decipher the device's passcode. The Atlanta company may soon be turning its attention to Android, according to a leaked recording.The U.S. government’s go-to hackers-for-hire for breaking into locked Apple iPhones, Grayshift, is planning to help crack another difficult nut: Google’s Android operating system.
“The most logical next step would be some of the more modern Android devices, from Samsung and Google,” he said. “We are only focused on iOS today, but we will expand.” It’s the first time Grayshift has revealed plans to move on to Android.last year, when the company claimed it could crack the passcode of all modern iOS devices with its GrayKey hacking tool.
He admitted that there are still some encrypted parts of the phone that won’t be accessible, including the iPhone’s email database, frequent location information and health data. A passcode is required to access those. Miles didn’t disclose whether encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal were accessible, but GrayShift could tap text messages, images and even the Keychain, where iPhones store passwords for apps and other sites. And the hack works on all iPhones, up to the latest models.
Miles said that Apple had updated security on its chips so that the old methods for bypassing those restrictions on those brute force attacks couldn’t be ported across to the new iPhones. But he claimed the tools to allow passcode retrieval on the latest Apple phones should be available to its customers soon.
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