Digital Forensics Firm Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium

Cellebrite announced a planned $170 million acquisition of virtualization vendor Corellium to broaden its digital forensics and security offerings across mobile, automotive, and IoT platforms, subject to U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment approval and performance-based earnouts; the report emphasizes expected synergies for defense, intelligence, and security research. The article also calls out controversies: criticism of Cellebrite’s UFED products over alleged human-rights abuses and Corellium’s past legal clash with Apple—this is a corporate transaction and controversy report, not a technical incident or malware analysis.