Oxygen Forensic® Cloud Extractor offers the exclusive ability to extract data from Wickr cloud via usernamepassword or token extracted from Android device (Please note that Wickr cloud has no 2FA). The extracted evidence set will include account information, contacts, calls, private and group messages but only for a maximum 6 days. However, Oxygen Forensic® Detective fully supports Wickr Me decryption from Android devices acquired via physical extraction. Wickr Me running on mobiles devicesĬurrently we do not support Wickr extraction from Apple iOS devices as the encryption key is stored in the inaccessible part of keychain but we are planning to add access to it and implement Wickr iOS decryption in an upcoming version. We at Oxygen Forensics do our best to extract the maximum amount of evidence even from this challenging app. With all the security features mentioned it is no surprise that Wickr was reported to be a preferred tool by Islamic State (IS) as well as by drug dealers and users sharing child abuse images. Oxygen Forensic Detective focuses on the home user version.
There are several types of Wickr – Wickr Me for home users and Wicr Pro for businesses.
As if this was not secure enough, if “Require Authentication” option is enabled the messenger will ask for a password every time a user opens it. Furthermore, all data is (at rest and transit) encrypted with AES256. This feature can inhibit the recipient of making a screenshot of the transferred information. In both cases the Expiration Timer and Burn-On-Reader Timersettings can be also custom.īad news for investigators – all the user content is really wiped from the device after it expires so there are no traces to recover them currently.Īmong other secure features of mention there is also screenshot detection. The time starts counting as soon as content is marked as “read” but will never extend the life of the content beyond the destruct time determined by the “Expiration” value. It sets the amount of time after a recipient views the content before it is destroyed on the receivers device. The second option is called Burn-On-Reader Timer that can be set from 3 seconds to 6 days. The first one is called the Expiration Timer that sets the life span of every message from 6 hours to 6 days after this allotted time the message will disappear from the device. There are two expiration settings in Wickr.
The second, and in fact the most important feature, is message expiration. Contacts can be gathered through sending invitations to phonebook contacts.
Registration is done via username, and a phone number is not necessary. The first, one that often makes it stand out among other Messengers, is the ability to be anonymous. Let’s have a look at these secure features. Wickr is regularly mentioned in various Internet sources as a secure messaging app.
Wickr was founded in 2012 by a group of security experts who wanted to implement new standards of data privacy that had been previously available only to military and intelligence operatives.Īccording to the The Forrester New Wave™: Secure Communications, Q4 2018 report, Wickr is a leader among 10 select emerging technology companies. Wickr Messenger allows users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, and make end-to-end encrypted video conference calls. The Wickr instant messaging apps allow users. Wickr has developed several secure messaging apps based on different customer needs: Wickr Me, Wickr Pro, Wickr RAM, and Wickr Enterprise. The company is best known for its instant messenger application of the same name.
Wickr is an American software company based in New York City. With Wickr Me, you can instantly connect with your friends 1:1 or in groups - now with fully encrypted voice calling, voice memos - new additions to the trusted end-to-end secure sharing of files. Though the app rightly puts security first, Wickr is easy. This makes secure messaging app Wickr (iOS App Store, free), which destroys messages after a set period of time, all the more attractive.