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Russia Used Cellebrite on Jailed Activist's iPhone Months After Sales Cutoff
The Hacker News
Russian authorities used Cellebrite's UFED forensic tools to break into the iPhone of detained opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021, three months after Cellebrite said it would stop selling its tools and services to Russia and Belarus. The finding, published June 25 by the Citizen Lab, rests on two things that rarely line up: traces on the phone itself and an official Russian
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