Cellebrite’s newest target: Your IoT-infested home – CyberScoop
To make the case for their ability to handle the exploding world of IoT, Cellebrite’s pitch uses a hypothetical scenario where a woman is killed in her Seoul, South Korea apartment. Upon discovering the body, law enforcement finds a dozen IoT devices including an Amazon Echo, Google OnHub router, a Samsung Smart Things Hub, motion sensors, door sensors and an IPTime Switch:
Everything in this apartment, from the phones to the smart TV, is constantly collecting data. Cellebrite’s products combine the data from all these devices, as well as the associated cloud accounts, and creates a report that can be checked against, for instance, the husband’s alibi.
The smartphone is Cellebrite’s target of choice — which makes sense since the company made its reputation on collecting data from any phone. In this case, text messages raise alarms. But everything else in the home, from the fitness tracker to the television to the unknown Android phone’s presence, gives an unprecedented amount of information.