Innovation timeline - Cellebrite

UFED innovation timeline

Cellebrite UFED consistently brings critical mobile forensic capabilities first to the lab and field, and many of these capabilities remain unmatched for months or years. Many remain unmatched today.

2020
December

Huawei Backup – a new capability to apply Huawei backup via UFED to get more logical data.

December

Chat Capture – a new collection method that automatically grabs screenshots from any Android device.  Use it when you need to take a snapshot of a specific chat conversation, social app feed, or when other methods are not available due to time or operational restrictions.

December

iOS 14 Checkm8 – upgraded support of iOS Full File-system based on checkm8 to include the latest iOS version available, 14.2.

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November

Media Classification in Cellebrite Physical Analyzer – Classifying media files automatically with new AI capabilities.

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October

Image Classification in Cellebrite Physical Analyzer – The new image classification engine delivers a new examination experience in Cellebrite Physical Analyzer.

October

Support for the Zello app.

October

Restore iCloud backup with UFED Cloud – Regain the ability to retrieve iCloud backups even with the latest iOS version.

October

Decoding of Scrambled messages (WhatsApp FTS ChatSearchV5f DB).

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October

Qualcomm Live Renaissance – The improved capability allows Full File System (FFS) or Physical extractions of popular devices such as Samsung Galaxy S10 (SM-G973U), LG Stylo 5, Motorola Z2, Xiaomi Redmi Note 8, and many others.

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October

Advanced logical extraction and decoding of Apple devices running iOS 14.

October

More applications to APK downgrade – To enhance UFED APK downgrade support we added new APKs to the latest version. The new supported Apps are: Zello, TikTok, Kik messenger, LinkedIn, Yahoo messenger, Vine, UC Bowser, QQ, Ali express, Firefox, and others. 

October

A New Consolidated Messages Approach: We have enhanced the way messages are handled in Cellebrite Physical Analyzer to break down the message silos and provide a unified view for all messages while focusing on context, rather than the mechanics.

October

Workflow Guidance – We created the workflow guidance widget to help managers and administrators to better guide, control, and enforce working procedures. The Workflow guidance feature allows admins to create guided instructions to assist users during the workflow. The guidance can include text and images and can be tuned for each state of the workflow.

October

2 new cloud sources: Tik Tok and Line.

August

Qualcomm Live now support Samsung and Huawei devices – Enhancements to this unique capability to support Samsung and Huawei known passcode devices and improved stability for previously supported vendors. UFED now offers for the first time supported to very popular models such as S10, Note 10, Note 9, S9, Note 8, S8 and others. The capability supports both FBE and FDE devices.

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August

Selective extraction of AD-ID in iOS devices.

August

Perform LG backup to collect more data – A new capability to apply LG backup via UFED to get more logical data.

August

More chipset support for Huawei Decrypting Kirin Bootloader- Added additional support for the following Kirin chipsets KIRIN658, KIRIN710, KIRIN710F & KIRIN655. The capability enables Full file system & Selective File-system extraction for devices with a known passcode or with empty passcode.

July

Import and Examine Facebook Takeout Data – Users can now import a package file and review data including Facebook contacts, posts, images and more.

June

Qualcomm Live: First-time support for a generic full file system or physical extraction for unlocked Qualcomm based Android devices. The new capability extends access to the latest devices from vendors such as Xiaomi, OPPO, OnePlus, VIVO, Nokia, LG Motorola and others, running OS versions 7 up to 10.

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