Elcomsoft Phone Viewer Version 5.0 gains the ability to display conversation histories and secret chats in Telegram, one of the world's most popular instant messaging apps.
With nearly half a billion users, Telegram is an incredibly popular cross-platform instant messaging app. While Telegram is not considered the most secure instant messaging app (this title belongs to Signal), its conversation histories do not appear in either iTunes or iCloud backups.
Telegram developers emphasize end-to-end encryption for secret chats, which makes secret chats device specific. They are not part of the Telegram cloud, they cannot be extracted with cloud acquisition, and they cannot be obtained from Telegram the company with a government request. As a result, Telegram secret chats can be only extracted from the device of origin.
Elcomsoft Phone Viewer 5.0 gains the ability to display Telegram conversations by analyzing the iPhone file system image. The Telegram database is extracted from a file system image obtained with Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit or similar tool. Experts using Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit will simply open the file system image in Elcomsoft Phone Viewer to access the Telegram database complete with attachments and secret chats.
In addition, Elcomsoft Phone Viewer 5.0 enables support for the latest version of Signal, world's most secure instant messenger. The tool offers the ability to decrypt Signal conversation databases extracted from the iPhone file system images, obtained with Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit, and display its content including messages, calls and attachments in a blink of an eye.
Republished courtesy of Elcomsoft.