‼️ The Pentagon, the Secret Service and ICE's investigative arm bought phone forensics software from Oxygen Forensics that prosecutors say five Russians secretly controlled through a Cyprus holding company, while selling the same software in Russia to customers including the FSB.

Their CEO Lee Reiber was arrested in Idaho and Russian co-founder Oleg Davydov at London's Heathrow Airport before boarding a flight to Istanbul, and both are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Prosecutors say Davydov moved the build servers to U.S. cloud computers so Reiber could tell federal buyers the code was built in America, while a team in Russia kept writing it.

In March, weeks after reports that ICE was using the software, Reiber told DHS that no Russian was involved in developing it, the complaint says.

The FSB used the Russian version, Mobile Criminalist, to unlock the iPhone seized from RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva in 2023, according to case files cited by The Insider.

The complaint does not allege malicious code or unauthorized access to any customer's systems or data.

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