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corellium.com
Company blog · corellium.com/blogsecuritysystems
corellium.com is the company blog at corellium.com, writing about security and systems. Since 2019, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “How We Ported Linux to the M1”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Corellium's blog mostly for its Linux on Apple M1 port write-up and for background on its iOS virtualization product and its lawsuit with Apple. Commenters cite these posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Virtual iOS, Android, and Arm devices to speed up security testing, research, and DevSecOps for security teams, mobile pentesters, and software developers.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-03-04
- How We Ported Linux to the M14 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-21
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-08-08
- Would it be legally safe to work with correlium?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-30
- /blog/linux-m12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-12
- Corellium will pay for security researchers to check Apple CSAM claims2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-17
- Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-06
What Hacker News says?
Was any of the Corellium port [1] usable for mainline Linux? In theory, they have a commercial interest in Linux for Apple Silicon, plus emulation tools. [1] https://www.corellium.com/blog/linux-m1
Comment linking /blog/linux-m1
on “Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead”Submitted How We Ported Linux to the M1 as a story · 362 points
HN discussionThis doesn't look like "fake news" to me. Timeline: Monday, August 16: Corellium launches its "Open Security Initiative" to fund "research projects designed to validate any security and privacy claims for any mobile software vendor". The announcement prominently lists Apple's privacy and security claims about its CSAM scanning as one of the topics that would be eligible for funding under this initiative. ( https://w…
Comment linking /blog/open-security-initiative
on “Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium”Submitted Hardware security mechanisms protecting physical memory on mobile devices as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI googled a bit and found this, which points to some other tools. https://www.corellium.com/blog/ios-mobile-reverse-engineerin... (No affiliation.)
Comment linking /blog/ios-mobile-reverse-engineering
on “All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs”Submitted Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> The M1 felt like yet another step towards making the Mac more closed There's a certain amount of hubris in this, in that (at least until AMD came along), pretty much every single Intel chip has only made Intel money, while ARM is broadly-licensed and is ripe for a surge. All Apple did was create an ARM-compatible chip, which is how someone already got Linux running on it: https://corellium.com/blog/linux-m1 Here's…
Comment linking /blog/linux-m1
on “M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU”Submitted Corellium will pay for security researchers to check Apple CSAM claims as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHow do they actually run the iOS OS code involved in this debugging? Jailbroken iPhones? iOS virtualization ala Corellium ( https://corellium.com )?
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on “The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone”Submitted Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Looking up the Librem 5 devicetree in the upstream kernel, it seems it was submitted on Aug 21 2020. Aspen shipped in September 2019, so it took them about a year from shipping to upstreaming bring-up, and that's not considering internal prototypes and that the SoC was announced in mid 2018, so they had plenty of time to work on things internally. I submitted upstream bring-up for the M1 Mac Mini with the device t…
Comment linking /blog/linux-m1
on “Intel completely disables AVX-512 on Alder Lake after all”Submitted Exploiting iOS Local Storage with Corellium as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInterfacets, it is mentioned in the article > Apple designed their own interrupt controller, the Apple Interrupt Controller (AIC), not compatible with either of the major ARM GIC standards. And not only that: the timer interrupts - normally connected to a regular per-CPU interrupt on ARM - are instead routed to the FIQ, an abstruse architectural feature, seen more frequently in the old 32-bit ARM days. Naturally, Li…
Comment linking /blog/linux-m1
on “Linux Running on Apple M1”Submitted Corellium Ported Linux to the Apple M1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThese people: https://www.corellium.com/about#:~:text=Who%20we%20serve
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on “Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon”Submitted Would it be legally safe to work with correlium? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor those that don’t know about it, you can find a fairly complete commercial iPhone emulator at Corellium: https://www.corellium.com/ It does essentially everything, short of hardware accelerated rendering You can even emulate it being attached directly to your Mac and use it as a cloud device from Xcode
Comment linking /
on “iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU”If you want a potential alternative to the security research device from Apple look into Corellium[1] - startup that emulates iOS on ARM64 server hardware, sued by Apple for copyright claims and survived. It is a paid product (eg $x/hr cloud billing). Supposedly easier to obtain than the security research device. [1] https://corellium.com
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on “Apple security bounty upgraded”> when you cannot trust the OS The list above is not about distrusting the vendor or OS, it's about leveraging the vendor's officially published statements of behavior (e.g. HTTPS network traffic identified by PKI certificates tied to vendor's legal identity), used in contracts with enterprise customers that have competent lawyers, for the benefit of smaller customers. MDM policy can be configured to narrow the vend…
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on “macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions”They have: https://corellium.com Though there is an ongoing lawsuit as a result.
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on “The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture”It looks like some folks have made it work on linux: https://corellium.com/blog/linux-m1 For Windows support, I thought Apple said something along the lines of: "If Windows wants to add support, we are fine with it" - but I could be mistaken.
Comment linking /blog/linux-m1
on “Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps”> How hard is it to emulate an iPhone or Android Check out Correlium https://corellium.com/ They operate in a sort of legal grey-area since you're not 'supposed' to emulate iOS so if you decide to use it, keep in mind it could all be shut down at a moments notice.
Comment linking /
on “Photos and Video Taken Inside Illegal Click Farms (2018)”Apple has been kind of forced into the open source model by tools like Corellium[1] and some source code leaks. This means that the black box advantage that iOS has had is no longer as significant. Apple's move with the Security Research Device Program[2] proves this point. They wouldn't be offering it if they didn't think it was a serious problem for them. [1] https://www.corellium.com/ [2] https://security.apple.c…
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on “NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says”We do have https://www.corellium.com/ but that's a hosted solution and not generally available to consumers.
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on “TouchHLE: An iOS 2.0 App Emulator”Not advertising, but apple did have beef with https://www.corellium.com/ -they tried to shut them down as of 2020. Pretty cool tool.
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on “Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)”> it was never hacked and made to run on other ARM platforms. Barring Corellium[0], of course. My first instinct is that any company with the resources to make such a thing could tell it wouldn't last long. Petty copyright violations go over pretty smoothly in China all the time, but any attempts to go international would get them sued out of the market. It would also stand to sabotage Apple's investments in Chinese…
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on “Ask HN: How did Apple manage to prevent Chinese phone makers from running iOS”
