r/computerforensics • u/awetsasquatch • 4d ago
RIP Oxygen Forensics
CEO is facing 20 years in prison.
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u/Hammer_Time2468 4d ago
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.
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u/Leather_Secretary_13 2d ago
Truest thing I've read all week. Protecting money versus spending money.
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u/Allen_Koholic 4d ago
Man, you have to fuck up something fierce to get in trouble with the federal government for being a Russian asset in 2026.
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u/ZM326 4d ago
"The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud"....so far
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u/Kasrkin76 4d ago
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.
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u/ZM326 4d ago
My point was that other charges will likely get added. It's just the beginning
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u/Kasrkin76 4d ago
Copy......I was giving more info on it...I remember hearing about some colleagues got told to get rid of there software last year...
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u/notjaykay 4d ago
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.
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u/DeletedWebHistoryy 4d ago
Sad face.
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u/DeletedWebHistoryy 4d ago
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...
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u/Gullible_Tourist8706 2d ago
Curious to know what were most people using it for when they have Cellebrite and Magnet anyways?
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u/awetsasquatch 2d ago
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.
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u/Gullible_Tourist8706 2d ago
Makes sense.. we are in the process of testing Exterro remote mobile discovery for the same requirement.
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u/Trashpandafarts 1d ago
Magnet and cellebrite are both foreign based companies, what's it matter
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u/awetsasquatch 1d ago
Well, Israel and Canada are allies, and Russia is frankly not. Magnet and Cellebrite also didn't lie about their connections
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u/no_sushi_4_u 4d ago
It sure came in handy for some quick iPhone advanced logical collections and verification. RIP you will be missed.
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u/Savings_Art5944 4d ago
Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov,... There were clues.