Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware

Serbian police and intelligence officers used Cellebrite forensic extraction software to unlock journalists’ and activists’ phones and install previously unknown Android spyware called NoviSpy, a new Amnesty International report claims. The unlocking was made possible through exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability affecting chipsets made by Qualcomm. In early October 2024, Qualcomm fixed CVE-2024-43047, reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Amnesty International as exploited in the wild. Google followed with a fix for Android … More → The post Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware appeared first on Help Net Security.
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