Those not living under a large rock will, by now, have caught up with the news that Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’s phone was “hacked” after an allegedly infected Whatsapp message was sent to him by the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman (“MBS”). A full report by consultancy FTI, which was tasked with analysing the phone, failed to explicitly find any malware, but did identify that hours after a suspicious video file was sent to Bezos by MBS on May 1, 2018 “a massive and unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos’ phone began, continuing and escalating for months thereafter.” The full report, leaked by Vice’s Motherboard, shows that the FTI team used a tool from Cellebrite (Cellebrite UFED 4PC Ultimate and Physical Analyzer) to pull forensic images from the phone.

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