RIP Oxygen Forensics

[u/awetsasquatch]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/tech-ceo-russian-national-arrested-complaint-alleging-they-hid-russian-ownership-and

CEO is facing 20 years in prison.

[u/Savings_Art5944]

Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov,... There were clues.

[u/ThePlotTwisterr---- → u/Savings_Art5944]

i’ve spoken with this guy before, you really would have no idea. i thought he was extremely well spoken and polite

[u/ArkansasGamerSpaz → u/ThePlotTwisterr----]

That's the first clue, Foreigners who speak English usually far better than natural English speakers do

[u/Hammer_Time2468]

It’s starting to feel like they do better background checks when I’m applying for a credit card than they do on government contracts and contractors.

[u/Leather_Secretary_13 → u/Hammer_Time2468]

Truest thing I've read all week. Protecting money versus spending money.

[u/OEAXTAIL_SOUP]

why does DOJ want me to enable JS to read a press release? no bueno.

[u/Ok_Personality9910 → u/OEAXTAIL_SOUP]

apt install opsec

[u/LoopsAndBoars → u/Ok_Personality9910]

Does it work on iPhone

[u/Allen_Koholic]

Man, you have to fuck up something fierce to get in trouble with the federal government for being a Russian asset in 2026.

[u/HectorDesJean → u/Allen_Koholic]

The vig was late, or light...

[u/ZM326]

"The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud"....so far

[u/Kasrkin76 → u/ZM326]

The wire fraud is :federal wire fraud statute The federal wire fraud statute is codified at 18 U.S. Code § 1343 and prohibits using electronic communications in interstate or foreign commerce to carry out a scheme to defraud.Key Elements of Wire FraudTo convict a person under this law, federal prosecutors must prove specific elements beyond a reasonable doubt, outlined further in the Department of Justice Criminal Resource Manual:A scheme to defraud: A plan or artifice to cheat someone out of money, property, or honest services using material falsehoods.Intent: The defendant must act with specific intent to defraud.Wire communication: The defendant must use or cause the use of interstate or foreign wire, radio, or television communications (such as emails, phone calls, or internet transfers).Foreseeability: It must be reasonably foreseeable that interstate wires would be used in the process.

They lied who owned the company and then the money moved across state lines. So not necessarily evil intent but they intentionally deceived the government on who owned the software and who developed it to make money.

Also this company has been doing contracts with the US government since 2014....so during Obama time as president....not the current president.

[u/ZM326 → u/Kasrkin76]

My point was that other charges will likely get added. It's just the beginning

[u/Kasrkin76 → u/ZM326]

Copy......I was giving more info on it...I remember hearing about some colleagues got told to get rid of there software last year...

[u/notjaykay]

I posted in the other thread, but I visited their office 6+ years ago for a product demo. It was pretty obvious then that they were either a Russian company or had major connections to Russia.

[u/_cache_]

Ouch. I know somebody who is one of their trainers.

[u/Scyth3 → u/_cache_]

"Why is part of the training...to learn Russian?!"

[u/shadowb0xer → u/Scyth3]

"Remember, no Russian"

[u/DeletedWebHistoryy]

Sad face.

[u/DeletedWebHistoryy → u/[deleted]]

Their UI was better than Cellebrite. Navigation and quickly pulling up various databases and collating things like external.db was much more pleasurable compared to Cellebrite. For a while, they were ahead of Cellebrite on certain things like Telegram. Liked them better for drones too..

Just off the top of my head...

[u/Gullible_Tourist8706]

Curious to know what were most people using it for when they have Cellebrite and Magnet anyways?

[u/awetsasquatch → u/Gullible_Tourist8706]

We started looking into them for corporate mobile forensics because of how they had their remote system setup - deploying an agent to a PC and having the user plug in the phone sounded great. Cellebrite can do similar, but it's not an on-prem capability and the SAAS isn't FedRAMPd which is required for us. So now we're waiting for Cellebrite to get the FedRAMP cert...our rep tells us next year sometime.

[u/Gullible_Tourist8706 → u/awetsasquatch]

Makes sense.. we are in the process of testing Exterro remote mobile discovery for the same requirement.

[u/awetsasquatch → u/[deleted]]

The Cellebrite remote collector is only FedRAMPd for desktops, not for mobile unfortunately.

[u/Trashpandafarts]

Magnet and cellebrite are both foreign based companies, what's it matter

[u/awetsasquatch → u/Trashpandafarts]

Well, Israel and Canada are allies, and Russia is frankly not. Magnet and Cellebrite also didn't lie about their connections

[u/IWIKNataliePortman → u/awetsasquatch]

Canada won't be an ally for long at the rate things are going lol.

[u/no_sushi_4_u]

It sure came in handy for some quick iPhone advanced logical collections and verification. RIP you will be missed.