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Russian authorities used Cellebrite tools to unlock an activist’s iPhone and analyze private data despite canceled support, raising abuse concerns. On May 31, 2021, Russian security services pulled opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov off a flight at St. Petersburg airport and confiscated his iPhone 12 and MacBook. He never consented to a search and never gave […]

Russian authorities used Cellebrite's UFED forensic tools to break into the iPhone of detained opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021, three months after Cellebrite said it would stop selling its tools and services to Russia and Belarus

The phone-cracking firm broke off from its deal with Russia, but Citizen Lab said that didn’t stop authorities from surveilling Andrey Pivovarov. The post Russia uses Cellebrite to break into human rights activist’s phone, even after cancellation of contract appeared first on CyberScoop.