The big questions from FTI’s report on the Jeff Bezos hack
A cybersecurity forensics team has concluded with “medium to high confidence” that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hacked Jeff Bezos’ iPhone X in 2018, but the analysis has not impressed the information security community. The firm, FTI Consulting, may have good reasons to conclude there was unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos’ phone after bin Salman sent him a WhatsApp message containing a suspicious video file. But the publicly available information about FTI’s work has left many cybersecurity experts with questions about who really hacked Bezos’ phone and how the attackers did it. The report — published Wednesday by Motherboard after a United Nations statement had summarized its findings — is a rare look into the forensic analysis of a device suspected to be the target of nation-state hacking. And given Bezos’ high profile as the owner of The Washington Post and the founder of Amazon, the case is likely to draw intense scrutiny for the indefinite […]
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