Serbia used spyware to hack phones of journalists
Cenzolovka pre 6 sati
Less than a week after the publication of our joint appeal to the EU to take urgent EU-wide measures, such as stricter regulation of spyware exports and use, new spyware abuse scandal erupts in Serbia: Serbian intelligence services and police have used spyware and other digital tools to hack the phones of journalists and illegally surveil them, Amnesty International said in a report published on Monday.
According to this very documented report, mobile forensic products made by Israeli firm Cellebrite are being used by authorities in Serbia to extract data from journalists and activists’ phones, while new Serbian spyware “NoviSpy” has been developed to infect devices and capture information. Amnesty International collected a dozen testimonies of activists and journalists, including investigative journalist Slaviša Milanov, whose phones have been hacked in recent