For more than a year I’ve spoken with Scattered Spider “caller” Noah Urban from a Florida jail. I wanted to know how they chose victims, their methods and how Noah became entangled in a virtually and physically violent world. We’re publishing his story today: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Staatliche digitale Überwachung der Zivilgesellschaft: Am 30.9. bringen Amnesty und das HAU in Berlin Journalist*innen, Aktivist*innen, Technolog*innen, politische Entscheidungsträger*innen und die von Spionageprogrammen Betroffenen zusammen. Infos & Anmeldung 👇 www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pde...

There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.

We are announcing Bugbane, an open-source Android app that makes consensual mobile forensics more accessible. It's compatible with MVT and AndroidQF. Now in an open-beta, we are calling for community feedbacks before a general public release by EOY! osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/09...

🚨Out today: In Pakistan können jederzeit über 4 Mill. Menschen gleichzeitig willkürlich überwacht werden. Die Technik („LIMS“) stammt vom deutschen Unternehmen Utimaco und ist eigentlich im Export kontrolliert. Unsere neue, einjährige Recherche von @amnesty.de @amnesty.org & Partner*innen zeigt:

Great Firewall Export: A new investigation by @amnesty.org and partners reveals how Geedge Networks, a Chinese company is commercializing the tech behind China's notorious "Great Firewall". A huge leak of Geedge data reveal their products, deployed in China, Pakistan, and Myanmar among others.

BREAKING: Amnesty International research found illegal surveillance mass targeted surveillance with LIMS from Utimaco and Datafusion and Chinese commercialized Great Firewall provider active in Pakistan through a leak of documents of Geedge Networks. 🧵#BreakTheFirewall

If youre going to the Global Gathering. I'd like to invite you on the 9th of September at 15:00-1600 to circle 3 where we'll detail our new investigation "Inside a Cross-Border Investigation on Surveillance and Censorship Tech" w/ InterSecLab. wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?ti...

A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.

I can’t believe we are watching the deliberate starvation in Gaza and are this helpless. How is this 2025? How did we as a human race allow this to happen? How?

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

According to a DOJ IG report released this week, the Sinaloa cartel identified an FBI official working at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, tracked him via phone location data, tapped into Mexico’s surveillance camera network, & killed an unspecified number of informants. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The-dog-ate-my-homework pretext for delaying the spyware abuse trial in Greece. One of the rare cases in Europe that made it to the court. Most spyware victims have no real legal remedy, impunity reigns for spyware abuse.

I'm thinking of all of the countless victims, only a fraction of which we @citizenlab.ca @accessnow.org @amnesty.org and others identified of NSO Group's malicious sales to ruthless despots and corrupt security agencies. Never let bullies win.

⚠️ NSO Group is paving a path back Into Trump’s 🇺🇸America. The 🇮🇱Israeli #spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration. Here's my investigation for @wired.com.

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:

📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

NEW REPORT: Our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company Paragon Solutions reveals multiple threads linked to the proliferation of its mercenary #spyware operations across the globe. Read it here: citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...

📢NEW: The alarming discovery that Paragon’s Graphite spyware has been used against activists and journalists in Italy underscores Europe's worsening digital surveillance crisis, fuelled by a laissez-faire approach to regulation of the industry. via @donncha.is www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

We recently analyzed the latest Cellebrite device support matrix published in February 2025. The reality is worrisome. It can be used to unlock most of the mobile devices we use every day. Read our report: (ENG) osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03... (ITA) osservatorionessuno.org/it/blog/2025...

🔔NEW: Apple threat notification 🔔 Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware! Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Nachdem wir aufgedeckt haben, dass serbische Sicherheitsbehörden massiv Journalist*innen & Oppositionelle mit Spyware überwachen, hat Hersteller Cellebrite diesen Behörden nun die Nutzung seiner Software untersagt. Ein Erfolg, aber wann ermitteln endlich die serbische Behörden?

securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/... Amnesty International’s Security Lab has a post about 3 vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite to extract data from locked Android devices. GrapheneOS blocked exploiting these vulnerabilities in multiple different ways. We also patched them much earlier.

New from us @ Security Lab: after we published our report on how the Serbian BIA was using Cellebrite to install #NoviSpy on activist's phones, they *did it again*. Collab with SHARE Foundation, and the Balkan Investigative and Reporting Network (BIRN). securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

🚨 Human rights win 🚨 Cellebrite suspends government customers in Serbia! This announcement follows Amnesty International's December 2024 investigation into misuse of Cellebrite tools to target activists & journalists in the country by Serbian authorities. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

Reminder that the ICC is expecting sanctions from Trump which may cut off the Court‘s Microsoft Azure/365 access. Relying on US tech infrastructure is even more of a systemic risk for a big organisation now — even more the NSA access you have to typically assume. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...

Paragon Solutions, the Israeli spyware vendor linked to new surveillance of journalists and civil society, has set up shop in the 🇪🇺EU’s most powerful country: 🇩🇪 Germany and thus gaining unrestricted access to the bloc. My debut for @euractiv.bsky.social. 👇 www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

💥 Machthaber Vucic lässt Handys von Aktivistinnen und Journalisten anzapfen. Dabei kann er auf Überwachungs-Technik aus der Schweiz zurückgreifen. Meine Recherche, hier online.

As the M23 rebel group advance in eastern DRC, journalists are concerned for their safety and rights groups have warned that civilians are at heightened risk. The government has also threatened the press over reporting on the escalating conflict. cpj.org/2025/01/jour...

📢 LAST CHANCE: Apply for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensic Fellowship! Working with our team at the Security Lab, you'll learn the tech and investigative skills needed to expose how governments abuse advanced spyware and other surveillance tech against activists and civil society.

A British tribunal has found that police unlawfully spied on journalists — including more than a dozen working for the BBC. This is a depressingly familiar story. ⤵️ www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

A little over a week ago we @citizenlab.ca published a report on a similar finding involving seized phones of a Russian activist Bottomline: if your phone has been confiscated for any period of time, it's no longer secure. citizenlab.ca/2024/12/devi...

New: Cellebrite is being used as doorway to install malware. Amnesty finds multiple cases where police used Cellebrite to unlock phone; cops then used that access to infect with spyware which takes screenshots, turns on mic, etc, give phone back to target. In Serbia www.404media.co/cellebrite-u...

New @amnesty report reveals how Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert surveillance campaign. Read the report 👇

🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

NEW: Serbian officials installed homegrown spyware on the phones of dozens of journalists and activists, @amnesty.org said in a report released on Monday, citing digital forensic evidence and testimony from activists who said they were hacked in recent months. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

"The company, Cellebrite, has deep links to Israel’s military and intelligence apparatus and has previously been criticised by rights groups for selling its technology to repressive governments including Russia and China." New from me in The Currency: thecurrency.news/articles/169...

This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing: Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists. Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Fascinating new investigation from Suadad Al-salhy at Middle East Eye on a brewing political spying scandal in Iraq. Reports of use of mass surveillance tech, "Kingfish" call interception tech from L3Harris, and signs of a spyware campaign too 👀 www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-su...

“ICE purchased more than $20 million worth of mobile surveillance tools just months before the election of a president who has vowed to undertake the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history,” writes Thomas Brewster in @forbes.com. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit. It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.

Thailand: Dismissal of landmark case a critical and alarming setback in fight against unlawful use of spyware www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

If you're part of civil society and received an Apple notification. The Amnesty Security Lab would be happy to test your phone! The Apple notification looks like this: support.apple.com/en-us/102174 The Security Lab can be contacted here: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/

Today Amnesty International has launched a .onion site on the Tor network to make our human rights research safely accessible 🎉🧅 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... The Tor Project builds critical infrastructure enabling activists to maintain their privacy and freedom of expression in a digital world.

Amnesty's @donncha.is to 🇪🇺European Parliement's LIBE Committe on #spyware 🇺🇸Executive Order: “It has been a very strong signal that these companies pose severe risk of contributing to human rights violations, but its remains to be seen how effective it will be in practice.” youtu.be/Jv5lvwsFAiY

Spannendes Interview von Marcel Rosenbach mit @donncha.is a.k.a. Donncha Ó Cearbhaill vom Sicherheitslab von Amnesty - der eine tragende Rolle bei den #PredatorFiles des SPIEGEL spielte, wie zuvor auch schon bei den #Pegasus-Enthüllungen www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net...

🚨BREAKING: “Predator Files” investigation reveals catastrophic failure to regulate surveillance trade. Our team at Amnesty International's Security Lab are technical partners in bombshell new investigation which exposes the global spread and abuses linked to "EU-regulated" spyware vendor Intellexa

📢 We're hiring a Full Stack Developer Last chance to join a unique role with our Security Lab team at Amnesty Tech. Help us build forensic tools and services to expose unlawful government surveillance and protect journalists, activists and civil society. Applications close tomorrow! ⏳ #hiring

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