Activist Phone Hacked With Cellebrite After Russia Contract Cancellation
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Citizen Lab forensic analysis and an Interior Ministry forensic report show that Russian authorities used Cellebrite UFED tools to unlock and extract messages and contacts from activist Andrey Pivovarov’s iPhone in June 2021 despite Cellebrite having canceled support for Russia earlier; the harvested data was later linked to an FSB-associated COLDRIVER phishing campaign, highlighting misuse of commercial forensic tools for political repression.
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