Amnesty International’s Security Lab, in collaboration with Amnesty’s European Regional Office, has uncovered a new case of misuse of a Cellebrite product to break into the phone of a youth activist in Serbia. The attack closely matches the form of attack that we previously documented in a report, ‘A Digital Prison’, published in December 2024.…
Responding to Cellebrite’s announcement that it will stop the use of its digital forensic equipment for some of their customers in Serbia, following Amnesty International’s report on the misuse of spyware and mobile forensic products by Serbian authorities to unlawfully target activists and journalists, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of the Security Lab at Amnesty International,…
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…
This press release is also available in Serbian “Srbija: Vlasti koriste špijunske softvere i forenzičke alate kompanije Cellebrite za hakovanje novinara i aktivista“. We have published the report’s Executive Summary as a webpage. The full report is available in PDF format from Amnesty.org. Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside mobile…
Policija i obaveštajne službe u Srbiji koriste moderan špijunski softver za mobilne uređaje zajedno sa mobilnim forenzičkim alatima kako bi nezakonito targetirali novinare, ekološke aktiviste i druge pojedince u kampanji tajnog nadzora, otkriva novi izveštaj Amnesty International-a. Izveštaj pod naslovom „Digitalni zatvor: Nadzor i represija civilnog društva u Srbiji“,dokumentuje kako se mobilni forenzički proizvodi izraelske…
This is a companion blogpost to our report “A Digital Prison” – Surveillance and the Suppression of Civil Society in Serbia. Amnesty Security Lab has published Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) for the NoviSpy spyware application. This tutorial explains how to use AndroidQF Android Quick Forensics (androidqf) and Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) to examine an Android…
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…