Digital Prison
Serbian authoritarians deploy #surveillance technology and digital repression tactics as instruments of wider state control directed against civil society. NSO Group’s #Pegasus #spyware with Android #NoviSpy & #Cellebrite UFED mobile forensics tools against environmental activists and protest organisers.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur70/8813/2024/en/
New from us @ Security Lab: after we published our report on how the Serbian BIA agency was using Cellebrite to install #NoviSpy on activist's phones, they *did it again*.
Collaboration with SHARE Foundation in Belgrade, and the Balkan Investigative and Reporting Network (BIRN).
Repression in Serbien: Kritiker mit #Staatstrojaner überwacht. Spionagesoftware #NoviSpy auf Telefonen von Aktivisten installiert. Auch #Cellebrite nimmt Stellung https://www.dw.com/de/serbien-kritiker-mit-spionagesoftware-%C3%BCberwacht/a-71119849
Widespread abuse: We urge the EU’s institutions to take action to stop the Serbian authorities’ illegal use of spyware #NoviSpy https://edri.org/our-work/serbian-authorities-must-prosecute-illegal-hacking-of-journalists-and-activists/ #Staatstrojaner
@autonomysolidarity Amnesty International révèle que la Serbie utilise des logiciels espions comme #Pegasus et #NoviSpy pour surveiller journalistes et militants. Cette "prison numérique" menace la société civile, facilitée par des outils d'extraction de données de Cellebrite, une entreprise israélienne. Ces outils permettent l'infiltration et l'extraction illégale de données. Il est temps d'agir pour protéger les droits humains ! #Cellebrite #Serbie #israel #Surveillance #DroitsHumains
#Serbian government exploited #Qualcomm zero-days to unlock and infect Android devices with a new spyware named ' #NoviSpy, ' used to spy on activists, journalists, and protestors. #spyware #Surveillance https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-android-novispy-spyware-linked-to-qualcomm-zero-day-bugs/
„Ein digitales Gefängnis“
Wie die serbische Regierung die Zivilgesellschaft ausspioniert
„Amnesty International enthüllt, dass Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen in Serbien in erheblichem Ausmaß mit Staatstrojanern wie #Pegasus und #NoviSpy ausgespäht werden. In der Kritik steht neben der serbischen Regierung die Firma Cellebrite, zu deren Kunden auch deutsche Behörden gehören….“
Serbia: “A Digital Prison”: Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia
#Cellebrite #PREDATOR #Intellexa #NoviSpy #NSOGroup
file:///Users/alecdhuse/Downloads/EUR7088132024ENGLISH.pdf
Amnesty International Security Lab revealed how the Serbian authorities have been using Cellebrite to break into the smartphones of activists and journalists, followed by planting NoviSpy, a type of spyware that Amnesty attributes with a high degree of certainty to the Serbian secret services.
#Amnesty International reports that Serbian authorities are unlawfully using Cellebrite tools and #NoviSpy spyware to hack journalists and activists, revealing a covert surveillance campaign undermining civil society. #Serbia #Surveillance #HumanRights https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/serbia-authorities-using-spyware-and-cellebrite-forensic-extraction-tools-to-hack-journalists-and-activists/