The widely misreported realm of mobile phone unlocking and forensic extraction has significantly developed in the last few years.What was once a native ground for lab geeks who probe for forgotten JTAG interfaces or handle hot air blowers to carefully remove shielding and expose eMMC chips for ISP readings, has shifted into a domain where the art of vulnerability research and exploitation sets the tone to dictate whether a device can be forensically extracted or not.Behind the scenes, a silent but breathtaking arms race of exploits and mitigations is taking place. For the first time, researchers from Cellebrite's world-leading forensics research lab - will uncover a part of that ongoing story.During this talk, we will introduce the audience to the unique and often disregarded technical challenges to the forensic extraction world (hint: do RCE attackers even consider encryption?) and navigate a complete extraction scenario for a popular encrypted phone model.This talk will feature a complete walk-though for the discovery, analysis and exploitation of a never-before-detailed extraction-enabling BootROM vulnerability present in modern day phones. This vulnerability is already known to the affected vendor and was patched and fixed in newer versions.