"Last year, the phone hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as customers, after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its tools to hack into the phones of a journalist and an activist, and plant spyware. This was a rare example of Cellebrite publicly cutting off a customer following documented allegations of abuse, citing Amnesty International's technical report for its decision."
"On Tuesday, researchers at The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab published a report alleging the Kenyan government used Cellebrite's tools to unlock the phone of Boniface Mwangi, a local activist and politician, while he was in police custody. In another report from January, the Citizen Lab accused the Jordanian government of breaking into the phones of several local activists and protesters using Cellebrite's tools."
Cellebrite suspended Serbian police after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its tools to hack phones of a journalist and an activist and plant spyware. The company cited Amnesty International's technical report for that decision. More recently, the company dismissed similar allegations of abuse in Jordan and Kenya and declined to commit to investigating them. Citizen Lab reported that Kenyan and Jordanian governments used Cellebrite's tools to unlock or break into activists' phones, identifying traces of a specific application tied to Cellebrite and signed with its digital certificates as a high-confidence signal.
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