Cellebrite said it cut off Russia, but Russia used its tools anyway

TechCrunch and Citizen Lab report that Russian authorities used Cellebrite's UFED phone-hacking tool to extract WhatsApp and Telegram data from opposition politician Andrey Pivovarov's iPhone in June 2021, despite Cellebrite's public claim it had stopped sales and revoked licenses to Russia in March 2021; forensic traces and court documents substantiate the use and highlight risks that surveillance tools, once distributed, can be abused and are hard to retract.