Amnesty International’s Security Lab is a team of researchers, hackers, coders, advocates and campaigners. We strive to create a world where civil society is free from unlawful targeted surveillance and other human rights violations enabled by technology.
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.
Amnesty International research relies on collaborations across multiple teams. The Security Lab recently had the opportunity to provide technical research support to a new report about the CBP One app. The report was researched and written by human rights experts from Amnesty International’s Americas Regional Office and Amnesty International USA, based on several research trips and numerous interviews with asylum seekers and local and international organisations. The Security Lab supported the research through a technical analysis of the CBP One application.
An expansive range of highly invasive spyware and surveillance products are being imported and deployed in Indonesia, Amnesty International’s Security Lab said today as it released a new briefing in collaboration with media partners – Haaretz, Inside Story, Tempo, WAV research collective and Woz.
Click here for a PDF version of this briefing.
On 10 April 2024, Apple sent threat notifications to users of iPhones in 92 countries. According to Tech Crunch, the warning text read:
Recent research by Security Lab partner organisations, Access Now, Citizen Lab and Reporters Without Borders has demonstrated the continued use of the highly invasive spyware Pegasus.
Amnesty International’s Security Lab is pleased to announce that it is part of the inaugural cohort of groups to be supported by the Spyware Accountability Initiative (SAI), whose mission is to grow a global field of civil society organizations who are advancing threat research, advocacy and accountability to address the use and trade of spyware.
The increasing number of spyware scandals across Europe and around the world were an alarm bell for Alex, a 31-year-old Romanian activist working at the intersection of human rights, technology and public policy.
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.
by Rebecca White