Responding to a ruling that spyware maker NSO Group must pay more than USD167 million in damages to Whatsapp, Rebecca White, Amnesty International’s researcher on targeted surveillance, said: “This is a momentous win in the fight against spyware abuse. NSO Group, which develops the notorious and highly invasive Pegasus spyware, has been implicated in severe…
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…
Two journalists from Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), an award-winning Serbian network of investigative journalists, were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware last month, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. Journalists Bogdana (not her real name) and Jelena Veljkovic received suspicious messages on the Viber messaging app from an unknown Serbian number linked to…
Novo istraživanje Amnesty International-a otkriva da su dve novinarke iz Balkanske istraživačke mreže (BIRN), nagrađivane mreže istraživačkih novinara iz Srbije, prošlog meseca bile meta špijunskog softvera Pegasus. Novinarke *Bogdana (nije pravo ime) i Jelena Veljković primile su sumnjive poruke preko aplikacije Viber sa nepoznatog srpskog broja registrovanog u mreži državnog telekomunikacionog operatera, Telekom Srbija.…
Responding to the publication of a Citizen Lab report identifying multiple cases involving the use of Paragon’s spyware against journalists and human rights defenders in Italy, the Head of Amnesty International’s Security Lab, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, said: “The alarming discovery that Paragon’s highly invasive Graphite spyware has been used against human rights defenders and journalists in Italy…
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…
In response to the Bangkok Civil Court’s dismissal of Thai activist, Jatupat Boonpattararaksa’s lawsuit against NSO Group Technologies Ltd for allegedly failing to prevent him from being targeted with spyware, Amnesty International’s Thailand Researcher Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong said: “The court’s failure to recognise NSO Group’s role in facilitating human rights abuses via the targeting of Thai…
On 11 October 2024, the UK’s High Court ruled that Saudi activist Yahya Assiri can continue his legal challenge against Saudi Arabia for being targeted with spyware while living in the UK. Yahya Assiri is a UK-based human rights defender and founder of the human rights organisation ALQST. A long-time friend of Jamal Khashoggi, the…
Amnesty International has filed an amicus curiae brief to the Bangkok Civil Court on the applicable international and regional human rights law and standards on the right to privacy, the right to an effective remedy, and human rights due diligence, in relation to the case Jatupat Boonpattararaksa vs. NSO Group Technologies Ltd. View the document…