Has Serbia hacked activists’, journalists’ phones? Why?
3 months, 1 week ago

Has Serbia hacked activists’, journalists’ phones? Why?

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Amnesty International has revealed that phones belonging to Serbian activists and journalists have been hacked by Serbian intelligence and police using Israeli spyware and other mobile device forensics tools. In October, 2023, Amnesty International’s Security Lab revealed that two prominent journalists had been targeted via their iPhones with Pegasus spyware. It is not known who was responsible., Amnesty International’s Security Lab revealed that two prominent journalists had been targeted via their iPhones with Pegasus spyware. Fakih, who oversees HRW’s crisis response in countries that include Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Israel, Myanmar, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria and the US, was targeted for unknown reasons by an unidentified party., HRW reported that Lama Fakih, a senior staff member and director of HRW’s Beirut office, was subjected to multiple cyberattacks using Pegasus spyware in 2021. Pegasus allegedly infiltrated Fakih’s phone on five occasions from April to August that year. It is not known who was responsible for the spyware attacks., a collaborative investigation by human rights group Access Now, the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and independent researcher Nikolai Kvantaliani from Georgia found that journalists and activists from Russia, Belarus, Latvia and Israel as well as several living in exile in Europe had been targeted with Pegasus spyware.

History of this topic

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3 months, 1 week ago
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3 months, 1 week ago
Serbian police use mobile phone spyware to keep track of opponents and journalists, Amnesty says
3 months, 1 week ago
Serbia has been illegally spying on political opponents and journalists, Amnesty says
3 months, 1 week ago
Poland’s prosecutor general says previous government used spyware against hundreds of people
11 months ago
Poland's right-wing leader questioned over Pegasus spyware
1 year ago
Former prime minister Kaczyński says Poland needed spyware but he wasn’t interested in the details
1 year ago
US sanctions spyware company and executives who targeted American journalists, government officials
1 year ago
Poland's PM says authorities in the previous government widely and illegally used Pegasus spyware
1 year, 1 month ago
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1 year, 1 month ago
US rolls out visa restriction policy on people who abuse spyware to target journalists, activists
1 year, 1 month ago
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1 year, 1 month ago
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1 year, 3 months ago
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1 year, 3 months ago
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1 year, 3 months ago
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1 year, 3 months ago
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1 year, 4 months ago
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1 year, 4 months ago
‘Pegasus spyware on my phone,’ says Akunuri Murali
1 year, 5 months ago
Leading Egyptian opposition politician targeted with spyware, researchers find
1 year, 6 months ago
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1 year, 6 months ago
Israeli firm NSO’s spyware again hacking iPhones: Report
1 year, 11 months ago
Press groups: Spyware again used against Mexican activists
1 year, 11 months ago
‘Officers told me to be careful...’: Rahul Gandhi on Pegasus issue
2 years ago
European spyware investigators criticize Israel and Poland
2 years, 6 months ago
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2 years, 7 months ago
Pegasus spyware not found on 29 phones submitted for examination: CJI
2 years, 7 months ago
Pegasus hearing: Centre didn’t cooperate with probe, says Supreme Court
2 years, 7 months ago
Victim of private spyware warns it can be used against US
2 years, 8 months ago
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2 years, 8 months ago
Researchers say Thai pro-democracy activists hit by spyware
2 years, 8 months ago
Researchers say Thai pro-democracy activists hit by spyware
2 years, 8 months ago
Pegasus spyware targeted Thai democracy activists: Report
2 years, 8 months ago
Thai pro-democracy activists had phones attacked with government-sponsored Pegasus spyware, investigators say
2 years, 8 months ago
Spain sacks spy chief over Pegasus spyware scandal
2 years, 10 months ago
Spain: 2021 spyware attack targeted prime minister’s phone
2 years, 10 months ago
2021 Pegasus attack targeted Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez’s phone
2 years, 10 months ago
Spain detects Pegasus spyware on PM, defence minister’s phones
2 years, 10 months ago
Watchdog warns Boris Johnson of suspected spyware attack on No 10
2 years, 11 months ago
Powerful ‘Pegasus’ spyware found on Downing Street phone, researchers claim
2 years, 11 months ago
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3 years, 1 month ago
Israeli police: Possible improper surveillance by our own
3 years, 1 month ago
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3 years, 2 months ago
Phone of senior HRW investigator ‘targeted’ by NSO spyware
3 years, 2 months ago
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3 years, 2 months ago
Israel to probe alleged use of Pegasus to spy on its citizens
3 years, 2 months ago
Israel lawmakers outraged over claim police used NSO spyware
3 years, 2 months ago

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