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Life & fun · April 19, 2025

Ibex – a cross-platform iOS backup decryption tool

ibex is a cross-platform tool designed for decrypting and extracting iOS backups. It provides forensic investigators, security researchers, and power users with the ability to access and analyze encrypted iOS backup data. It can be built and used on macOS, Linux, and Windows and is permitted to be used only with the explicit and informed consent of the backup data owner. Ibex was written in Go for straightforward compilation and to circumvent dependency issues and with the goal of enabling researchers and defenders assisting civil society victims of spyware and stalkerware Key Features -…

Ibex – a cross-platform iOS backup decryption tool launched on April 19, 2025 with 8 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

An iOS backup extraction tool written in Golang. Contribute to initz3r0/ibex development by creating an account on GitHub.

ibex is a cross-platform tool designed for decrypting and extracting iOS backups. It provides forensic investigators, security researchers, and power users with the ability to access and analyze encrypted iOS backup data. It can be built and used on macOS, Linux, and Windows and is permitted to be used only with the explicit and informed consent of the backup data owner . ibex was built for the researchers and defenders aiding civil society victims of spyware and stalkerware. git clone https://github.com/initz3r0/ibex.git && cd ibex go build ./ibex Homebrew brew install initz3r0/tap/ibex From Binary Download the latest release for your platform from the releases page . # Run with automatic…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

ibex is a cross-platform tool designed for decrypting and extracting iOS backups. It provides forensic investigators, security researchers, and power users with the ability to access and analyze encrypted iOS backup data. It can be built and used on macOS, Linux, and Windows and is permitted to be used only with the…

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