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DOJ charged a Cellebrite rival with hiding Russian ownership as Cellebrite missed its own ARR forecast

Federal charges have removed Oxygen Forensics, which prosecutors say was secretly Russian-owned, from a US phone-forensics market Cellebrite leads. The catch: Washington's own permit regime helped break Cellebrite's August forecast, and plaintiffs' firms are asking what management knew.

October 10, 2026 · 3 min read