Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left
A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks.
Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a forensic tool made by Cellebrite, three months after the Israeli firm publicly announced it had stopped selling to Moscow.
The detail that makes the case land is not the hack itself, but the paper trail: the government wrote down what it did.
Researchers at the Citizen Lab, the digital-rights group at the University of Toronto, said they found forensic evidence that a Russian investigative unit used Cellebrite’s phone-cracking tool, UFED, on the iPhone of Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021.
Authorities had detained Pivovarov, then director of the now-defunct opposition group Open Russia, and confiscated his iPhone 12 and MacBook in May of that year.
In March 2021, Cellebrite had ...
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