Citizen Lab: Russian security services used Israeli Cellebrite tool to access opposition activist Andrei Pivovarov's iPhone
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A new Citizen Lab report reveals that Russian security services used the Israeli digital forensics tool Cellebrite to break into the iPhone of opposition activist Andrei Pivovarov, former director of Open Russia, after seizing the device in 2021. Evidence shows Cellebrite tools were used around June 17, 2021, while the phone was in Russian custody, highlighting the use of commercial spyware and forensic tools by authoritarian regimes against political dissidents.
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Russian law enforcement used the Israeli digital forensics tool Cellebrite while the phone was in their custody, according to a new report by the Canadian research group Citizen Lab.
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