The Telegraph: London police used Oxygen Forensics to access locked phones

The Telegraph пишет, что речь идет о софте, который помогает обходить блокировки смартфонов и извлекать с них данные. В столичной полиции заявили, что используют его “лишь в небольшой части всей работы по цифровой криминалистике” и на время расследования отказались от него.

According to the newspaper, London police signed a contract with Oxygen Forensics in 2023. In archived promotional materials from the company, it had been mentioned among clients since 2018.

Oxygen was created in 2000 by programmers Oleg Fyodorov and Oleg Davydov. In 2007, they released a Russian version of the product called “Mobile Forensics”.

According to the U.S. prosecutor’s office, the American Oxygen Forensics was created in Virginia in 2013. In September, the company’s CEO, American Lee Reiber, was detained in the U.S. on September 20, and co-founder Oleg Davydov was arrested in the UK the same day at Washington’s request.

The company’s executives were accused of concealing information that it was controlled by Russian citizens and that its software was developed in Russia. The Telegraph also пишет that the company sold software to the Pentagon, ICE, and U.S. homeland security services and cooperated with law enforcement agencies in different countries, including supplying software to Russia’s FSB.

The newspaper lists Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, Latvia, and Hungary as buyers of Oxygen Forensics in the European Union and says that some of them have already begun procedures to terminate contracts.

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• Material: theins.ru