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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape.

This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment.

Here are this week’s highlights:

Russia used Cellebrite software to hack activist’s phone

An investigation by Citizen Lab confirmed that Russian authorities successfully used Cellebrite software to breach an iPhone belonging to opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov. Even though the surveillance vendor canceled its Russian contracts in 2021 prior to Pivovarov’s arrest, local agency documents prove that investigators used legacy setups to extract data from communication apps like Telegram and WhatsApp. Security researchers suspect that the harvested information was later weaponized by the state-backed threat group ColdRiverto launch targeted phishing campaigns...

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