Responding to the publication of a Citizen Lab report identifying Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and another who has chosen to remain anonymous, as the latest targets of Paragon’s spyware in Europe, Elina Castillo Jiménez, Advocacy and Policy Advisor on targeted surveillance at Amnesty International, said: “The discovery that Paragon’s highly invasive Graphite spyware has been unlawfully used […] The post Italy: New case of journalist targeted with Graphite spyware confirms w...| Amnesty International Security Lab
On 26 February 2025, Amnesty International filed written submissions to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Krzysztof Brejza v. Poland and 8 Other Applications. The case raises important questions of significance for domestic and regional legal systems around the world grappling with the intersection of human rights and digital surveillance through […] The post Poland: Written submissions filed to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Krzysztof Brejza v. Poland and...| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […]| Amnesty International Security Lab
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. […] The post Srbija: Novinarke BIRN-a mete špijunsko...| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […] The post Serbia: BIRN journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware appeared first on Amnes...| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […] The post Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware appeared first on Amnesty Internat...| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […]| Amnesty International Security Lab
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. […] The post Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist appeared first on Amnesty International Security Lab.| 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 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, […]| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […] The post Tech Guide: Detecting NoviSpy spyware with AndroidQF and the Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) appeared...| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […] The post Srbija: Vlasti koriste špijunske soft...| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […] The post Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journa...| Amnesty International Security Lab
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 […]| Amnesty International Security Lab
This resource hub was prepared by the Security Lab for human rights defenders, activists, journalists and other members of civil society.| Amnesty International Security Lab
Saudi activist Yahya Assiri can continue his legal challenge against Saudi Arabia for being targeted with spyware while living in the UK.| Amnesty International Security Lab
An expose the Intellexa Alliance's surveillance capabilities including advanced spyware, mass surveillance platforms, and tactical systems for targeting and intercepting nearby devices.| Amnesty International Security Lab