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Serbian police used Cellebrite to unlock, then plant spyware, on a journalist’s phone

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This year, a Serbian journalist and an activist had their phones hacked by local authorities using a cellphone-unlocking device made by forensic tool maker Cellebrite. The authorities’ goal was not only to unlock the phones to access their personal data, as Cellebrite allows, but also to install spyware to enable further surveillance, according to a […]

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Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe

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For the last few years, the Polish government under Donald Tusk has been investigating the use — and alleged abuse — of Pegasus phone spyware by the previous government.  On Monday, the former head of Poland’s internal security agency Piotr Pogonowski was arrested and forcibly taken to testify before parliament, as part of the current

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Hackers targeted Android users by exploiting zero-day bug in Qualcomm chips

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On Monday, chipmaker Qualcomm confirmed that hackers exploited a zero-day — meaning a security flaw that was unknown to the hardware maker when it was abused — in dozens of its chipsets found in popular Android devices. The zero-day vulnerability, officially designated CVE-2024-43047, “may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” according to Qualcomm, citing unspecified “indications”

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