You can also read a pdf version of this technical briefing. Amnesty International has found evidence that two journalists at the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (“BIRN”), an award-winning network of investigative journalists, were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in February 2025. These new findings of ongoing Pegasus targeting further strengthen evidence that Serbian…
This is the Executive Summary of Amnesty International’s report on surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia. Please click here for the full report in PDF format. You can read the Executive Summary in Serbian, French or Spanish. In February 2024, Slaviša Milanov, an independent journalist from Dimitrovgrad in Serbia who covers local…
Women and LGBTI activists in Thailand are being subjected to an online onslaught of abusive speech laced with misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic language, sexualized content and other forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV), Amnesty International said in a new report released today. The report, “Being Ourselves is Too Dangerous” highlights how women and LGBTI activists…
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Amnesty International, in partnership with The Washington Post, has unearthed shocking new details about the continued use of NSO Group’s highly invasive spyware Pegasus to target prominent journalists in India, including one who had previously been a victim of an attack using the same spyware.
This forensic appendix outlines forensic evidence on the use of highly invasive spyware against two journalists from India. Our investigation confirms that the devices of both individuals were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between August and October 2023. More information about the context for these attacks is available in an accompanying press release. This…
Together with civil society partners the SHARE Foundation, Access Now, and the Citizen Lab, Amnesty International can reveal that sophisticated spyware is being used to target civil society in yet another European country – Serbia. Last month, Apple shared a new round of threat notifications globally, notifying iPhones users who may have been targeted by…
Shocking spyware attacks have been attempted against civil society, journalists, politicians and academics in the European Union (EU), USA and Asia, according to a major new investigation by Amnesty International. Among the targets of Predator spyware are United Nations (UN) officials, a Senator and Congressman in the USA and even the Presidents of the European…
On 5 October 2023, a major global investigation – the “Predator Files” – was published exposing the proliferation of surveillance technologies around the world and the failure of governments and the European Union (EU) to properly regulate the industry. The Security Lab at Amnesty International is a technical partner in the “Predator Files”, a project…
A new investigation into the global surveillance crisis by the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International’s Security Lab, today begins to reveal the shocking truth about how far the industry’s tentacles have spread and how ineffective EU regulation has been in controlling it. The ‘Predator Files’ focuses on the…
A joint investigation has revealed that at least twelve Armenian public figures and officials, including journalists and human rights defenders were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware amid conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, between October 2020 and December 2022. Evidence from the investigation, conducted with Amnesty International’s Security Lab, Access Now, the Citizen Lab, CyberHUB-AM, and an independent mobile…
A high-profile woman journalist in the Dominican Republic has been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, in the first confirmed case in the country, Amnesty International reveals in a new investigation published on World Press Freedom Day. Analysis by Amnesty International’s Security Lab confirmed that a mobile device belonging to Nuria Piera was targeted and…