«Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 11.2 adds the ability to download iCloud backups created on devices running iOS and iPadOS 26 and, by extension, iOS/iPadOS 27 beta. With this release, Elcomsoft Phone Breaker becomes the first and only third-party tool capable of pulling these backups from Apple’s cloud. That might read like a routine compatibility update. It isn’t. […]»

18 June, 2026Oleg Afonin

«If you extract data from iPhones for a living, Stolen Device Protection is the change you can no longer afford to ignore. It does something deceptively simple: it puts Face ID or Touch ID in front of the “Trust This Computer” prompt. The practical result is that an examiner who knows the device passcode still […]»

1 June, 2026Oleg Afonin

«Pulling a backup out of iCloud is one of the more technically demanding jobs in cloud forensics. An iCloud backup is not a single, ready-to-download file; instead, it is assembled from a large number of separate fragments that have to be collected and stitched back together into a coherent backup. Recent changes to Apple’s communication […]»

26 May, 2026Oleg Afonin