Cellebrite DI Ltd
Israeli digital forensics company. Its Universal Forensic Extraction Device breaks into seized phones for police, border, prison and intelligence agencies worldwide. Israeli forces used it to strip the contents from the phones of thousands of Palestinians seized from Gaza, people the Israeli military later admitted were overwhelmingly civilians. Seven UK public bodies are customers, including the City of London Police.
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Israeli forces used Cellebrite tools on the phones of thousands of Palestinians seized from Gaza, whom the Israeli military later admitted were overwhelmingly civilians. On 26 January 2024 the International Court of Justice found a real and imminent risk to the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide, and ordered Israel to prevent them. The City of London Police bought below threshold and without competition on 27 June 2025, on the stated basis that Cellebrite is the sole supplier; such awards are open to challenge where the market has not been tested.
FY2025 revenue was $475.7m, up 19%, with GAAP net income of $78.3m. Reputational pressure has not yet touched the financials. SUNCORPORATION of Japan reported 42.67% beneficial ownership on 24 February 2026, with sole voting and dispositive power, so a single holder controls the register.
Cellebrite suspended customers in Serbia in February 2025 after Amnesty International documented abuse there, and points to that as proof of a working human rights policy. Since then the Citizen Lab has documented Jordanian authorities extracting the phones of activists detained over speech critical of Israel's campaign in Gaza, and traces associated with high confidence with Cellebrite on the Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi's phone in police custody. No investigation and no suspension followed. Spokesperson Victor Cooper told TechCrunch on 19 February 2026 that 'high confidence is not direct evidence'.
Cellebrite's technology has repeatedly reached jurisdictions it said it had exited: The Intercept documented Chinese police buying through resellers after the announced 2020 exit, and the Citizen Lab documented Russian authorities using UFED three months after the announced 2021 ban. Chief Marketing Officer David Gee called that use 'entirely unauthorized'; the company committed to no new safeguard and declined to watermark device logs with a customer identifier.
Strategic Analysis
In-depth assessment of the company's position, vulnerabilities, and recommended approaches for effective engagement.
High severity, lower vulnerability — requires long-term divestment pressure
Severity
8.5/10
(8 + 9) ÷ 2 = 8.5
Strategic Vulnerability
5.5/10
(6 + 5) ÷ 2 = 5.5
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Cellebrite sells the ability to open a phone its owner does not want opened. Israeli forces used its equipment on the phones of thousands of Palestinians seized from Gaza, people the Israeli military later admitted were overwhelmingly civilians. Its buyers are public bodies: police, border, prison and intelligence agencies, more than 7,000 by its own count, and every one is a public spending decision somebody can be made to defend.
Key Leverage Points
- Ask your police force what it pays Cellebrite and when the contract ends. Freedom of information laws in Britain, the United States and many European countries cover this. Al Jazeera named seven UK public bodies in February 2026, including the City of London Police. Take the expiry date to whoever signs the budget.
- Attack the sole-supplier claim before the ethics. The City of London Police bought without competition, on the assertion that only Cellebrite can do the work. Ask each buyer to publish the market assessment behind that claim (sources).
- Name the taint, then hand the committee the citation. Israeli forces used Cellebrite tools on the phones of thousands of Palestinians seized from Gaza. The British Journal of Criminology argued in August 2025 that police forces risk moral taint by association with such a company, and should weigh a supplier's moral suitability when buying. It is an academic journal, not campaign material, and committees treat it differently.
- Use the company's own precedent against it. Cellebrite cut off its Serbian customers in February 2025 after Amnesty International documented abuse there. The Citizen Lab documented abuse in Kenya on the same forensic method and asked for a suspension; none followed. None followed in Jordan either, where authorities extracted the phones of activists detained for speaking against Israel's assault on Gaza. Ask your buyer what assurance it holds that Cellebrite would suspend an abusive customer in your country.
- Tell defence lawyers the software has been broken open. Signal's founder published flaws in Cellebrite's tools in 2021 that allowed forensic reports to be altered without trace. Anyone facing evidence pulled from a phone this way can raise it.
Documented Impact
Cellebrite is Israeli, headquartered in Petah Tikva, and its Universal Forensic Extraction Device, or UFED, copies the contents of a locked phone in minutes. The Israeli Police has run eight units since 2016, under contracts worth around $11 million to 2025, renewed without tender on the stated basis that no other company holds the capability. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on 12 May 2025 that foreign phone-hacking vendors now refuse Israeli requests, leaving Israeli law enforcement dependent on Cellebrite. It has also taken United States Department of Defense funding to build technology for mapping tunnels in Gaza.
Israeli forces used Cellebrite tools on the phones of thousands of Palestinians seized from Gaza. Israeli media called those detainees fighters; the Israeli military later admitted the vast majority were civilians. Al Jazeera reported in February 2026 that many had been subjected to systematic torture. A seized phone holds the owner's entire contact list, photographs of their children, and the last messages they sent to relatives they may not know are alive. UFED takes all of it. 7amleh, the main Palestinian digital rights group, records that phone searches at Israeli military checkpoints are routine across the occupied Palestinian territory. On 26 January 2024 the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' highest court, found a real and imminent risk to the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide, and ordered Israel to prevent them.
The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, has documented three cases since the Serbia suspension. Jordanian authorities extracted the phones of activists detained over speech critical of Israel's assault on Gaza. Citizen Lab found traces associated with high confidence with Cellebrite on the Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi's phone, while it was in police custody. Russian authorities used UFED on the dissident Andrey Pivovarov, three months after Cellebrite said it had stopped selling there. Spokesperson Victor Cooper told TechCrunch "the two situations are incomparable". No investigation was opened and no customer was suspended. Citizen Lab offered to publish any reply to its open letter to the chief executive (timeline).
Engagement Strategy
Cellebrite has not answered the substance of what researchers and journalists have put to it. Its buyers have to. Write to them, not the company (letter templates).
- Police forces, and whoever oversees them. In Britain, write to the force and to its police and crime commissioner, the elected official who sets its budget. Elsewhere, the police board, mayor or interior ministry.
- Councils and city legislatures. Oakland's council waived competitive bidding and approved a Cellebrite contract in May 2026, six votes to two, after more than twenty people spoke against and none in favour. Zahra Billoo of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told the council it had brought in technology "tied directly to Israeli occupation forces", to the surveillance of Palestinians, and to immigration enforcement in the United States. That vote was public, and so is the next one.
- Investors. SUNCORPORATION of Japan holds 42.67% of the shares with sole voting power. Quiet engagement will not move the board; divestment is the honest ask.
Approach each public body on its own. Asking one authority not to renew is lawful advocacy; organising an agreement between competing institutions not to buy is not.
Evidence & Sources
Verified sources including NGO reports, regulatory filings, and primary documents. Use these to substantiate your correspondence. Entries marked First-hand were reported directly to this site and are published without identifying the source.
Forensic analysis of opposition politician Andrey Pivovarov's iPhone 12, corroborated by Russian state documents, found Cellebrite UFED used on 17 June 2021, three months after Cellebrite announced it had stopped selling to Russia. Chief Marketing Officer David Gee told Forbes the use was 'entirely unauthorized' and that Russia remains 'permanently on our restricted-customer list'. Cellebrite committed to no new technical safeguard.
Open sourceRevenue $128.3m, up 19% year on year; ARR $493.0m, up 21%; GAAP net income $10.9m; FY2026 guidance $565-571m. Cellebrite Government Cloud achieved FedRAMP High Authorization with the US Department of Justice as authorising agency, a material enabler of US federal expansion. The company states it serves more than 7,000 law enforcement agencies, defence and intelligence organisations.
Open sourceICE and Homeland Security Investigations plan a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a $100 million ceiling, expected later in 2026. DHS forecast documents describe Cellebrite as 'the most widely utilized and deployed computer forensic tool' within HSI. As at the date of this report the contract had not been solicited or awarded. DHS declined to comment.
Open sourceOakland City Council approved a $140,000 contract running to June 2027 by six votes to two, with competitive bidding waived, after more than twenty public speakers opposed it and none spoke in favour. Councilmembers Carroll Fife and Janani Ramachandran voted against; Fife said 'I just don't want Oakland to be part of that list of bad actors who continuously violate human rights.' Zahra Billoo of CAIR: 'By approving this contract, Oakland has chosen to bring in technology tied directly to Israeli occupation forces, the surveillance of Palestinians, and immigration enforcement here in the U.S.' Sgt Yun Zhou said the department 'does understand the optics of this company' but lacked a comparable alternative for Android devices.
Open sourceNames City of London Police, Leicestershire Police, British Transport Police, Kent Police, Essex Police, Northumbria Police and the Serious Fraud Office as UK Cellebrite customers, with City of London renewing at over £95,000 and Leicestershire at £328,688. Reports that Cellebrite technology 'has been used extensively by the Israeli military on Palestinians across Gaza and the West Bank, including to harvest data from the phones of thousands of detained Palestinians, many of whom have been subjected to systematic torture'. The Home Office, the Home Secretary and the police commercial agent Blue Light Services did not respond.
Open sourceThe single most important item on this page. Cellebrite spokesperson Victor Cooper said 'we do not respond to speculation', that 'the two situations are incomparable' and that 'high confidence is not direct evidence'. The company announced no investigation and no customer suspension in either Kenya or Jordan, on the same forensic methodology that produced the Serbia suspension. Citizen Lab's John Scott-Railton: 'We urge Cellebrite to release the specific criteria they used to approve sales to Kenyan authorities, and disclose how many licenses have been revoked in the past.'
Open sourceKenyan Directorate of Criminal Investigations officers arrested Mwangi on 19 July 2025 and seized his devices. Forensic analysis of the returned Samsung phone found traces of an application, com.client.appA, that the Citizen Lab associates 'with high confidence' with Cellebrite's extraction technology, used on or around 20 and 21 July 2025 while the device was in police custody. The Citizen Lab urged Cellebrite to 'suspend its services to the relevant Kenyan agencies and conduct a thorough and transparent investigation'. It did not.
Open sourceRonald J. Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, wrote directly to the CEO asking what human rights due diligence Cellebrite performed before, during and after selling to Kenyan agencies; how its Ethics and Integrity Committee complies with the UN Guiding Principles; how many clients it has ever sanctioned; and whether it will watermark device logs so abuse can be traced to a specific buyer. The letter quotes Cellebrite's own commitment to pursue only customers 'whom we believe will act lawfully and not in a manner incompatible with privacy rights or human rights'. Citizen Lab offered to publish any reply in full by 16 February 2026.
Open sourceSeven forensically documented cases of Jordanian authorities extracting data from the phones of activists and human rights defenders between late 2023 and mid-2025, with dozens more known to the researchers. All were detained or interrogated over speech critical of Israel's campaign in Gaza, prosecuted under Jordan's 2023 Cybercrime Law. Citizen Lab asked Cellebrite to open an investigation, watermark device logs with a customer identifier, and demonstrate compliance with the UN Guiding Principles. Cellebrite replied that as 'a matter of policy, we do not comment on specifics'.
Open sourceCellebrite DI Ltd is entry 21 of the 104 businesses screened, under DBIO listed activity 2 (Technology). The report's own cross-reference table records: UN database No, Who Profits No, AFSC Investigate Yes, 2025 UN Special Rapporteur report No, 2025 Amnesty report No. Its profile records that Israeli Police contracts have been repeatedly renewed without tender because Cellebrite is the only company with these capabilities, and that Israel used Cellebrite tools on the phones of thousands of Palestinians captured during the assault on Gaza, where 'the Israeli military later admitted that the vast majority were civilians'.
Open sourcePeer-reviewed article by Harkin, Molnar, Onik and Panagiotopoulos arguing that police 'could suffer from moral taint of association with such a company and that this should be a factor in procurement and deployment', and that police procurement requires 'the introduction of standards around the moral suitability of companies that are engaged'. The most useful single citation for a submission to a police and crime commissioner or council procurement committee.
Open sourceReports Cellebrite's role in Israel's assault on Gaza, including use to locate Hamas operatives' phones, and US Department of Defense innovation-unit funding for a product to map tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Corroborated on the tunnel-mapping point by AFSC Investigate and by Al Jazeera's February 2026 investigation.
Open sourceThe only research register that lists Cellebrite, and it flags the company on all three of its screens - Prisons, Occupations and Borders - and places it on the BDS Divestment Shortlist. Records over $48.6m in ICE contracts across 213-plus awards since 2008, over $6.1m from CBP since 2009, 839-plus Department of Justice contracts worth over $15.4m, purchases by police in all 50 US states, and approximately $11m in Israeli Police contracts between 2016 and 2025. Information stated valid as of 1 April 2025.
Open sourceAnnual report by 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the principal Palestinian digital rights organisation. Documents phone and social media inspections at Israeli military checkpoints as a routine instrument of control across the occupied Palestinian territory, alongside expanded surveillance systems including facial recognition cameras in Palestinian cities and neighbourhoods. It does not name Cellebrite and is cited here for the practice, not the vendor: it establishes that the forced search of Palestinians' phones is ordinary, systematic and continuous, which is the context in which UFED extraction from Gaza detainees sits.
Open sourceThe precedent that matters. Amnesty documented Serbian police using Cellebrite UFED to bypass phone security and install NoviSpy spyware on journalists' and activists' devices during detention. Cellebrite suspended 'relevant customers' in Serbia in February 2025, citing this report. It has declined to apply the same standard since.
Open sourceChinese police continued purchasing Cellebrite technology through resellers after the announced 2020 China and Hong Kong exit, including use in Tibet. The same reseller-leakage pattern the Citizen Lab documented for Russia in June 2026, which is why announced country exits should not be treated as verified withdrawals.
Open sourceMoxie Marlinspike documented critical security flaws in Cellebrite software, including outdated 2012 libraries enabling arbitrary code execution and the ability to alter forensic reports without detection. Relevant to any evidential challenge to Cellebrite-derived material in court.
Open sourceUpdates & Milestones
- Citizen Lab documents Russian use five years after the announced ban
Forensic analysis of Andrey Pivovarov's iPhone, corroborated by Russian state documents, showed Cellebrite UFED used in June 2021, three months after Cellebrite said it had stopped selling to Russia. Chief Marketing Officer David Gee called the use 'entirely unauthorized'. No new safeguard was committed to.
- FedRAMP High Authorization with DOJ as sponsor
Cellebrite Government Cloud achieved FedRAMP High Authorization with the US Department of Justice as authorising agency, removing a principal barrier to US federal expansion. Q1 2026 revenue was $128.3 million, up 19%, with ARR of $493.0 million.
- DHS signals a $100 million procurement ceiling
FedScoop reported that ICE and Homeland Security Investigations plan a five-year IDIQ contract with a $100 million ceiling, expected later in 2026, with DHS documents calling Cellebrite 'the most widely utilized and deployed computer forensic tool' within HSI. As at that date the contract had not been solicited or awarded.
- Oakland approves contract over unanimous public objection
Oakland City Council voted six to two to approve a $140,000 Cellebrite contract running to June 2027, waiving competitive bidding, after more than twenty members of the public spoke against it and none spoke in favour.
- Shiven Ramji appointed President, Products and Technology
Effective 4 May 2026, succeeding Ronnen Armon who retires after a transition period. Ramji was previously President of Auth0 at Okta.
- Drone forensics acquisition completed
Cellebrite completed its acquisition of SCG Canada Inc., extending its platform to extract flight logs, video files and cell tower connection data from more than 80 of the most common unmanned aerial vehicles, and into defence markets.
- Al Jazeera names seven UK public bodies
An Al Jazeera investigation named City of London Police, Leicestershire Police, British Transport Police, Kent Police, Essex Police, Northumbria Police and the Serious Fraud Office as UK Cellebrite customers. The Home Office, the Home Secretary and the police commercial agent Blue Light Services did not respond.
- SUNCORPORATION reports 42.67% stake
The Japanese parent SUNCORPORATION filed Schedule 13G/A Amendment No. 4 reporting beneficial ownership of 106,065,324 ordinary shares, 42.67%, with sole voting and dispositive power. A single holder controls the share register.
- Cellebrite refuses to apply the Serbia standard
Spokesperson Victor Cooper told TechCrunch that 'we do not respond to speculation', that 'the two situations are incomparable' and that 'high confidence is not direct evidence'. No investigation was opened and no customer was suspended in Kenya or Jordan. The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, which had approached the company on 18 February, recorded that Cellebrite did not respond.
- Citizen Lab documents use on Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi
Forensic traces associated with high confidence with Cellebrite were found on Mwangi's Samsung phone, used on or around 20 and 21 July 2025 while the device was in the custody of Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations following his arrest on 19 July 2025. Citizen Lab urged Cellebrite to suspend the relevant Kenyan agencies and investigate.
- Citizen Lab writes to the CEO
Citizen Lab Director Ronald J. Deibert wrote to CEO Thomas Hogan asking what human rights due diligence preceded sales to Kenyan agencies, how the Ethics and Integrity Committee complies with the UN Guiding Principles, how many clients have ever been sanctioned, and whether Cellebrite will watermark device logs so abuse can be traced to a named buyer. Citizen Lab offered to publish any reply in full.
- Record full-year 2025 results
Revenue of $475.7 million, up 19%, GAAP net income of $78.3 million and ARR of $480.8 million at 31 December 2025. Reputational pressure has not yet touched the financials.
- Citizen Lab documents use against Jordanian civil society
Seven forensically documented cases of Jordanian authorities extracting data from the phones of activists and human rights defenders detained over speech critical of Israel's campaign in Gaza, between late 2023 and mid-2025, with dozens more known to the researchers. Cellebrite replied that as a matter of policy it does not comment on specifics.
- Croatian Ministry of the Interior award
Croatia's Ministry of the Interior awarded a EUR 853,124 contract for a three-year Cellebrite Inseyets Online Pro subscription, supplied through the Zagreb reseller INsig2 d.o.o. A worked example of how European public money reaches Cellebrite through an intermediary.
- Corellium acquisition completed
The acquisition closed, adding $16.1 million of ARR and extending Cellebrite's platform from physical device access into virtual device testing.
- Listed in Don't Buy Into Occupation V
Cellebrite DI Ltd appeared as entry 21 of the 104 companies screened in the fifth Don't Buy Into Occupation report, under DBIO listed activity 2 (Technology), bringing it within the scope of European financial institution divestment engagement.
- Hogan confirmed as permanent CEO
Thomas E. Hogan was confirmed as permanent Chief Executive Officer, having served as interim CEO since 1 January 2025.
- Peer-reviewed case for procurement exclusion
The British Journal of Criminology published 'Should Moral Taint Be a Factor in Police Technology Procurement? The Case of Cellebrite', arguing that police forces risk moral taint by association and that moral suitability standards should govern technology procurement.
- Corellium acquisition agreed
Cellebrite agreed to acquire the mobile device virtualisation company Corellium at an enterprise value of $170 million, with up to $30 million more contingent on performance milestones.
- Foreign vendors refuse Israel, Cellebrite gains
Haaretz reported that international phone-hacking firms now refuse to cooperate with Israeli requests, leaving Israeli law enforcement dependent on local tools and securing Cellebrite a further contract.
- Serbia customers suspended
Cellebrite announced the suspension of products for 'relevant customers' in Serbia, citing Amnesty International's technical report. This is the one occasion on which the company has acted on documented abuse, and it is the benchmark against which every subsequent refusal should be measured.
- Thomas Hogan becomes interim CEO
Yossi Carmil stepped down after nearly twenty years. Executive Chairman Thomas E. Hogan took over as interim CEO, with Adam H. Clammer becoming Chairman of the Board.
- Amnesty documents Serbian spyware chain
Amnesty International documented Serbian police using Cellebrite UFED to bypass phone security and install NoviSpy spyware on journalists' and activists' devices during detention.
- FBI given unreleased Cellebrite software
Bloomberg reported that the FBI received still-in-development Cellebrite software to unlock the phone of the suspect in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and opened the device within 40 minutes of receiving it.
- UFED used on Palestinians seized from Gaza
Israeli forces used Cellebrite tools to harvest data from the phones of thousands of Palestinians captured during the assault on Gaza. AFSC Investigate and DBIO V record that while Israeli media claimed these individuals were members of armed groups, the Israeli military later admitted the vast majority were civilians.
- Ethics and Integrity Committee formed
Cellebrite announced an Ethics and Integrity Committee to advise the board on the sale and use of its technology. The Citizen Lab noted in February 2026 that the company has published no criteria the committee applies, no record of its determinations, and no count of clients ever sanctioned.
- Chinese police continue buying after the announced exit
The Intercept revealed that Chinese police continued purchasing Cellebrite technology through resellers after the announced exit, including use in Tibet.
- Cellebrite lists on NASDAQ
The company completed a SPAC merger and began trading under the ticker CLBT, bringing it within reach of shareholder engagement, index exclusion and divestment campaigns.
- Signal exposes critical vulnerabilities
Signal's founder documented major security flaws in Cellebrite software, including the ability to alter forensic reports without detection, creating a standing evidential challenge to Cellebrite-derived material.
- Russia sales ban announced
Cellebrite announced it had stopped selling to Russia. The Citizen Lab would later document Russian authorities using Cellebrite UFED on activist Andrey Pivovarov's iPhone in June 2021, three months afterwards.
- China and Hong Kong exit announced
Following criticism over use against Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, Cellebrite announced a China and Hong Kong exit 'effective immediately'.
- Myanmar journalist prosecution
Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who had reported on the massacre of Rohingya civilians, were sentenced to seven years. The Washington Post reported that Myanmar police used Cellebrite products to breach the journalists' phones, evidence from which was relied on in the prosecution.
- Cellebrite founded
Company established in Petah Tikva, Israel, initially in mobile phone data transfer, later specialising in forensic extraction from seized devices.