Bugbane: Simplifying consensual Android forensics
UB4.132 | Day 2 | 09:25 - 09:50 | Speakers: Giulio B, Davide `thezero`
Abstract
Bugbane is an open-source Android application that simplifies consensual forensics by building on Amnesty TechLab's Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT). Bugbane makes MVT's capabilities accessible to everyone through a user-friendly interface, allowing users to self-test in just a few minutes without needing a second device. It also enables periodic data acquisitions, supporting the analysis of past acquisitions with updated IoCs in an "acquire-now, detect-later" workflow. Bugbane reliably extracts and decodes key artifacts like installed apps, backups, and system logs, and allows users users to export AndroidQF-compatible age-encrypted archives.
The goal is to expand access and usage, helping users and supporting organizations work more efficiently, and reaching a broader audience, including less-technical individuals and communities currently outside civil-society support. In the longer term, Bugbane aims to strengthen the collection of open threat intelligence that can be shared with researchers, analysts, and civil-society organizations.
- https://github.com/osservatorionessuno/bugbane
- https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/09/bugbane-simplifying-consensual-android-forensics/
Speakers
Giulio B is a co-founder of Osservatorio Nessuno and a researcher at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He has a background in both systems security and science and technology studies, and has spent many years working across the computing stack, from reverse engineering and low-level systems to secure infrastructure design, while keeping a close eye on the social and political implications of his work.
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