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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill

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Head of Security Lab - Amnesty International Hunting spyware and unlawful surveillance targeting activists and civil society. For help with digital forensics or suspect spyware threats contact: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 12/05/2026
Excited to see Google publicly launch Intrusion Logging, the first purpose-built system to enable forensic investigations of advanced digital attacks on mobile. We @amnesty.org have collaborated with Android Security on it's design over the past two years securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2026/...
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Android Intrusion Logging as a new source of data for consensual forensic analysis  - Amnesty International Security Lab
Google has today announced the launch of a new ‘Android Intrusion Logging’ feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM). The new intrusion logging feature promises to be a major aid to d...
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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 08/05/2026
Pech für die Angreifer: Auch der Leiter unseres Amnesty Security Labs, @donncha.is, erhielt eine der Signal-Attacken - er und sein Team konnten diese mit einer russischen Gruppe, die unter dem Kürzel »UNC5792« bekannt ist, in Verbindung bringen.👇 www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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(S+) Signal-Angriff und Killerteams: So unverfroren agieren russische Agenten in Deutschland
Der Angriff auf Signal-Nutzerkonten deutscher Spitzenpolitiker versetzt Berlin in Alarm. Russlands Agenten spionieren immer dreister. Moskau sieht Deutschland inzwischen als »Feind Nummer eins«. Die S...
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 07/05/2026
In January, a phishing message arrived on my Signal account, supposedly from "Signal Support." I was able to turned the tables on the attackers and get a unique view of the wide-scale campaign by the attacker's targeting journalists and politicians I was target #13,730 in their database.
Signal phishing attempt from Signal Support
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Etienne - Tek @tek.randhome.io · 23/04/2026
Morpheus: A new Spyware linked to IPS Intelligence - Osservatorio Nessuno osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/0…
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Morpheus: A new Spyware linked to IPS Intelligence
Morpheus: A new Spyware linked to IPS Intelligence
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 09/04/2026
“We analyzed a 2025 sample of the Spyrtacus #spyware, version 8.71. …We confirm attribution to 🇮🇹SIO S.p.A. and provide a small set of IoCs to detect infections of this malware family.” osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/04...
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Italian spyware maker SIO still developing and distributing Spyrtacus
Italian spyware maker SIO still developing and distributing Spyrtacus
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
NEW: For months, I’ve been working on the story of Peter Williams, the former U.S. defense contractor who stole several hacking tools and then sold them to a Russian broker. Here’s what we know about the case, what we still don’t know, and a peek behind the scenes at how I reported this story.
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Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia | TechCrunch
The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
NEW: Meet the folks at AccessNow's Digital Security Helpline, who have been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, helping journalists and dissidents all over the world. I spoke to Hassen Selmi, who heads the incident response team, to learn how his team fights spyware abuses.
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Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
NEW: Staffers at notorious spyware maker Intellexa had live remote access to their customers' surveillance systems. This allowed them to see the personal data of targets hacked with Intellexa's spyware Predator, according to research based on a leaked training video. Needless to say, this is bad.
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Sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa had direct access to government espionage victims, researchers say | TechCrunch
Based on a leaked video, security researchers alleged that Intellexa staffers have remote live access to their customers' surveillance systems, allowing them to see hacking targets’ personal data.
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Julian-Ferdinand Vögele @julianferdinand.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
1/ Today we release a new report exposing previously undisclosed entities connected to the wider #Intellexa ecosystem as well as newly identified activity clusters in Iraq and indications of activity in Pakistan: www.recordedfuture.com/research/int...
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Intellexa’s Global Corporate Web
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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · 04/12/2025
Our full report can be found here: securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/... Haaretz - www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... InsideStory - insidestory.gr/article/inte... Inside-IT - www.inside-it.ch/intellexa-le...
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To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of Intellexa’s mercenary spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab
Drawing on leaked internal company documents, sales and marketing material, as well as training videos, the “Intellexa Leaks” investigation gives a never-before-seen glimpse of the internal operations...
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 04/12/2025
🚨 A huge leak exposes the new targets and internal operations of Intellexa, the secretive and murky company behind the notorious Predator spyware. Introducing #IntellexaLeaks, a joint investigation with partners @insidestory.gr, @haaretzcom.bsky.social & WAV Research Collective 🧵👇
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
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🛰️ SATCOM Security
Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group. NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.
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Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch
NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.
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Julian-Ferdinand Vögele @julianferdinand.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
If you're based in Berlin, there's an event this Tuesday on spyware, hosted by @amnestyuk.bsky.social and @papertrailmedia.de. It includes workshops by @donncha.is, @jurrevanbergen.nl, and others, drop-in sessions, and a panel. Tickets are still available: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pde...
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Digital Surveillance: How States Are Spying on the Resistance
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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 27/09/2025
Danke Berlin! #AllEyesOnGaza
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Lena Rohrbach @artepovera.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Join us? 💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social 💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech 💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social &Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social
Weißer Text auf schwarzem Grund: Digital Surveillance: How States are Spying on the Resistance, mit Logos von HAU und Amnesty International
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Margi Murphy @margimurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
For more than a year I’ve spoken with Scattered Spider “caller” Noah Urban from a Florida jail. I wanted to know how they chose victims, their methods and how Noah became entangled in a virtually and physically violent world. We’re publishing his story today: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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‘I Was a Weird Kid’: Jailhouse Confessions of a Teen Hacker
Noah Urban’s role in the notorious Scattered Spider gang was talking people into unwittingly giving criminals access to sensitive computer systems.
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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 17/09/2025
Staatliche digitale Überwachung der Zivilgesellschaft: Am 30.9. bringen Amnesty und das HAU in Berlin Journalist*innen, Aktivist*innen, Technolog*innen, politische Entscheidungsträger*innen und die von Spionageprogrammen Betroffenen zusammen. Infos & Anmeldung 👇 www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pde...
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Digital Surveillance: How States Are Spying on the Resistance
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 16/09/2025
There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.
It's genocide.
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Osservatorio Nessuno OdV @osservatorionessuno.org · 06/09/2025
We are announcing Bugbane, an open-source Android app that makes consensual mobile forensics more accessible. It's compatible with MVT and AndroidQF. Now in an open-beta, we are calling for community feedbacks before a general public release by EOY! osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/09...
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Bugbane: Simplifying consensual Android forensics
Bugbane: Simplifying consensual Android forensics
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Lena Rohrbach @artepovera.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🚨Out today: In Pakistan können jederzeit über 4 Mill. Menschen gleichzeitig willkürlich überwacht werden. Die Technik („LIMS“) stammt vom deutschen Unternehmen Utimaco und ist eigentlich im Export kontrolliert. Unsere neue, einjährige Recherche von @amnesty.de @amnesty.org & Partner*innen zeigt:
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 09/09/2025
Great Firewall Export: A new investigation by @amnesty.org and partners reveals how Geedge Networks, a Chinese company is commercializing the tech behind China's notorious "Great Firewall". A huge leak of Geedge data reveal their products, deployed in China, Pakistan, and Myanmar among others.
Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · 09/09/2025
BREAKING: Amnesty International research found illegal surveillance mass targeted surveillance with LIMS from Utimaco and Datafusion and Chinese commercialized Great Firewall provider active in Pakistan through a leak of documents of Geedge Networks. 🧵#BreakTheFirewall
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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · 07/09/2025
If youre going to the Global Gathering. I'd like to invite you on the 9th of September at 15:00-1600 to circle 3 where we'll detail our new investigation "Inside a Cross-Border Investigation on Surveillance and Censorship Tech" w/ InterSecLab. wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?ti...
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September 9 2025 Agenda - TCU Wiki
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 29/08/2025
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.
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WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.
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Rawya Rageh @rawya.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I can’t believe we are watching the deliberate starvation in Gaza and are this helpless. How is this 2025? How did we as a human race allow this to happen? How?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
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L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 27/06/2025
According to a DOJ IG report released this week, the Sinaloa cartel identified an FBI official working at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, tracked him via phone location data, tapped into Mexico’s surveillance camera network, & killed an unspecified number of informants. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton
Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The-dog-ate-my-homework pretext for delaying the spyware abuse trial in Greece. One of the rare cases in Europe that made it to the court. Most spyware victims have no real legal remedy, impunity reigns for spyware abuse.
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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'm thinking of all of the countless victims, only a fraction of which we @citizenlab.ca @accessnow.org @amnesty.org and others identified of NSO Group's malicious sales to ruthless despots and corrupt security agencies. Never let bullies win.
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 10/04/2025
⚠️ NSO Group is paving a path back Into Trump’s 🇺🇸America. The 🇮🇱Israeli #spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration. Here's my investigation for @wired.com.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/04/2025
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:
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How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 27/03/2025
📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab
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 ...
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 19/03/2025
NEW REPORT: Our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company Paragon Solutions reveals multiple threads linked to the proliferation of its mercenary #spyware operations across the globe. Read it here: citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
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Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab
In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across t...
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢NEW: The alarming discovery that Paragon’s Graphite spyware has been used against activists and journalists in Italy underscores Europe's worsening digital surveillance crisis, fuelled by a laissez-faire approach to regulation of the industry. via @donncha.is www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Europe: Paragon attacks highlight Europe’s growing spyware crisis
The use of Paragon’s Graphite spyware against human rights defenders and journalists highlights the growing spyware crisis in Europe.
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Osservatorio Nessuno OdV @osservatorionessuno.org · 17/03/2025
We recently analyzed the latest Cellebrite device support matrix published in February 2025. The reality is worrisome. It can be used to unlock most of the mobile devices we use every day. Read our report: (ENG) osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03... (ITA) osservatorionessuno.org/it/blog/2025...
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A deep dive into Cellebrite: Android support as of February 2025
A deep dive into Cellebrite: Android support as of February 2025
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 05/03/2025
🔔NEW: Apple threat notification 🔔 Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware! Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do
Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do
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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 28/02/2025
Nachdem wir aufgedeckt haben, dass serbische Sicherheitsbehörden massiv Journalist*innen & Oppositionelle mit Spyware überwachen, hat Hersteller Cellebrite diesen Behörden nun die Nutzung seiner Software untersagt. Ein Erfolg, aber wann ermitteln endlich die serbische Behörden?
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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 28/02/2025
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/... Amnesty International’s Security Lab has a post about 3 vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite to extract data from locked Android devices. GrapheneOS blocked exploiting these vulnerabilities in multiple different ways. We also patched them much earlier.
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Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist - Amnesty International Security Lab
Amnesty International’s Security Lab uncovers sophisticated Cellebrite zero-day exploit, impacting billions of Android devices.
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 28/02/2025
New from us @ Security Lab: after we published our report on how the Serbian BIA was using Cellebrite to install #NoviSpy on activist's phones, they *did it again*. Collab with SHARE Foundation, and the Balkan Investigative and Reporting Network (BIRN). securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist - Amnesty International Security Lab
Amnesty International’s Security Lab uncovers sophisticated Cellebrite zero-day exploit, impacting billions of Android devices.
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 26/02/2025
🚨 Human rights win 🚨 Cellebrite suspends government customers in Serbia! This announcement follows Amnesty International's December 2024 investigation into misuse of Cellebrite tools to target activists & journalists in the country by Serbian authorities. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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Serbia: Cellebrite halts product use in Serbia following Amnesty surveillance report - Amnesty International Security Lab
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 spy...
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michael veale @michae.lv · 26/01/2025
Reminder that the ICC is expecting sanctions from Trump which may cut off the Court‘s Microsoft Azure/365 access. Relying on US tech infrastructure is even more of a systemic risk for a big organisation now — even more the NSA access you have to typically assume. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...
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ICC braces for swift Trump sanctions over Israeli arrest warrants
Leadership at international criminal court fears new US administration will move quickly to shut it down
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 06/02/2025
Paragon Solutions, the Israeli spyware vendor linked to new surveillance of journalists and civil society, has set up shop in the 🇪🇺EU’s most powerful country: 🇩🇪 Germany and thus gaining unrestricted access to the bloc. My debut for @euractiv.bsky.social. 👇 www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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EXCLUSIVE: Spyware firm behind new surveillance of journalists, civil society operates from the EU
Paragon's establishment in Germany comes as places like Italy and Barcelona are becoming key European hubs for the spyware industry, attracting international hacking talent.
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Fabian Eberhard @fabianeberhard.com · 02/02/2025
💥 Machthaber Vucic lässt Handys von Aktivistinnen und Journalisten anzapfen. Dabei kann er auf Überwachungs-Technik aus der Schweiz zurückgreifen. Meine Recherche, hier online.
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Schweiz lieferte serbischer Regierung Technik zur Handy-Überwachung
Immer mehr Menschen fordern in Serbien Veränderungen. Die Regierung weist Kritik zurück – und lässt Aktivisten überwachen. Dabei kann Belgrad auf Schweizer Technik zurückgreifen.
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Jonathan Rozen @jonathanrozen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
As the M23 rebel group advance in eastern DRC, journalists are concerned for their safety and rights groups have warned that civilians are at heightened risk. The government has also threatened the press over reporting on the escalating conflict. cpj.org/2025/01/jour...
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Journalists covering eastern DRC conflict face death threats, censorship - Committee to Protect Journalists
The M23 rebel group’s assault on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma has brought familiar dangers for Congolese journalists, who for years have navigated intimidation and attac...
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 21/01/2025
📢 LAST CHANCE: Apply for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensic Fellowship! Working with our team at the Security Lab, you'll learn the tech and investigative skills needed to expose how governments abuse advanced spyware and other surveillance tech against activists and civil society.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 17/12/2024
A British tribunal has found that police unlawfully spied on journalists — including more than a dozen working for the BBC. This is a depressingly familiar story. ⤵️ www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
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'Landmark case for press freedom' - Northern Ireland and Met police broke law spying on journalists
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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