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Researchers find with high confidence that security officials used Cellebrite to extract data from activists’ phones

Citizen Lab says it found ‘digital fingerprints’ of military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted using against activists

Akunuri Murali, a Hyderabad-based former civil servant, claims his phone was targeted by Israeli spyware Pegasus. He received a suspicious message from Apple, which was followed by contact from The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto. After verifying their credibility, Murali allowed them to remotely access his phone, which revealed it…

Galina Timchenko, the CEO of Meduza, was hacked earlier this year before participating in a meeting of exiled Russian journalists

Galina Timchenko, head of media outlet declared ‘undesirable’ by Moscow, targeted in February while living in Berlin

Critics say app – partly owned by a Saudi investor – promoting image of Mohammed bin Salman while critical voices are punished

At least a dozen victims were found to have been hacked by Pegasus during clashes in the region in 2021