Artifacts
- Facebook Messenger | iOS: Added support for retrieving attachment information for carved messages. [255]
- Google Hangouts | Android: Updated support for Google Hangouts Cached Images. [39.0.38]
- SMS/MMS Messages | Android: Android SMS and Android MMS artifacts have been combined into a single Android SMS / MMS artifact.
- Signal | Android: Updated support to decrypt the backup database for Signal Backup to recover Messages and Conversations artifacts. [5.17.3]
- Skype | iOS, Android, and Windows: Updated support to recover draft messages and include the [Draft] tag at the beginning of the message.
- Snapchat Memories | Android and iOS: Updated support to recover entry ID, user ID, and attachment information.
- Updated support to upgrade AXIOM to the latest version of ImageMagick.NET to mitigate Access Violation Exception crashes when processing certain images. Additionally, the upgrade provides improvements for image formats such as TIF and HEIC.
- Zoom | Windows: Added support for full database decryption.
Remote acquisition
- If you’re unable to deploy the agent, you will now see an error message with a more specific failure reason.
- When configuring an agent, you can now enable an agent proxy option to automatically detect if the endpoint is using a proxy and use those settings to connect back to AXIOM Process.
- When enabling the remote indexing feature, you can now see a warning that the remote endpoint might experience a brief increase in CPU usage.
Cloud
- Public and user account Facebook and Instragram icons are now updated.
- When Mega splits files into multiple streams for downloading, AXIOM can now download and recombine them.
- You can now see the WhatsApp display name in chat bubbles in AXIOM Examine.
Processing
- When you activate or renew a dongle license in Magnet License Manager, you no longer need to provide an activation code.
Examining
- The media categorization counts on the Case dashboard now match the counts in the Media explorer, and clicking on a media category link takes you to the Media explorer.
Bug fixes
- AXIOM would sometimes crash with the exception "ERROR – 10: Unable to close stream". -AXP-8419
- After encountering a corrupt .zip file, AXIOM Process indicated search was running but no updates were made. -AXP-7931
- Improvements to how AXIOM processes F2FS file systems. -AXP-8339
- AXIOM was not correctly parsing all Recycle Bin files. -COMP-1479
- AXIOM was not correctly parsing all text messages and location sharing information from WhatsApp on Android. -MA-3282
- AXIOM was not correctly parsing the Message Status for some Live Location messages and incorrectly displayed Not received by Recipient. -MA-3328
- AXIOM Process will no longer send email notifications when files are downloaded for co-admins in Box.com. -CAO-4037
- AXIOM Process would fail to download shared files in the signed-in user's Box.com account. -CAO-4038
- Previously, you were unable to acquire Google Drive backups of WhatsApp accounts. -CAO-3163
Known issues