{"id":172699,"date":"2025-06-05T12:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/phone-unlocking-firm-cellebrite-to-acquire-mobile-testing-startup-corellium-for-170m-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:17:24","slug":"phone-unlocking-firm-cellebrite-to-acquire-mobile-testing-startup-corellium-for-170m-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/phone-unlocking-firm-cellebrite-to-acquire-mobile-testing-startup-corellium-for-170m-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone unlocking firm Cellebrite to acquire mobile testing startup Corellium for $170M | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cellebrite, a company that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/19\/cellebrite-asks-cops-to-keep-its-phone-hacking-tech-hush-hush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes forensic equipment for unlocking smartphones<\/a>, said it is acquiring mobile testing startup Corellium for $170 million in cash, with $20 million converted to equity at closing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israel-headquartered Cellebrite said the deal would help with the \u201caccelerated identification of mobile vulnerabilities and exploits.\u201d Much of Cellebrite\u2019s technology relies on using unknown vulnerabilities, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/12\/23\/techcrunch-reference-guide-to-security-terminology\/#zero-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zero-day exploits<\/a>, to unlock encrypted data stored on phones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its part, Corellium provides its customers access to virtual, cloud-based Android and iOS devices for app and security testing, an offering that Apple for a time <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/08\/11\/apple-drops-its-lawsuit-against-maker-of-iphone-emulation-software\/?bingParse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sought to block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Cellebrite spokesperson told TechCrunch that the deal is expected to close later this year, subject to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/04\/wtf-is-cfius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a review from CFIUS<\/a>, the U.S. government committee tasked with handling corporate deals that could affect national security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/05\/phone-unlocking-firm-cellebrite-to-acquire-mobile-testing-startup-corellium-for-170m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellebrite, a company that makes forensic equipment for unlocking smartphones, said it is acquiring mobile testing startup Corellium for $170 million in cash, with $20 million converted to equity at closing. The Israel-headquartered Cellebrite said the deal would help with the \u201caccelerated identification of mobile vulnerabilities and exploits.\u201d Much of Cellebrite\u2019s technology relies on using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}