Has Serbia hacked activists’, journalists’ phones? Why?
Al JazeeraAmnesty 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.