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Cellebrite suspends Serbia as customer after claims police used firm’s tech to plant spyware
Security researchers found evidence that Cellebrite was used by Serbian police to hack into the cellphones of a local journalist and an activist.
However, in December, when it originally responded to Amnesty’s report, the company said it was aware of the nonprofit’s “findings on the use of surveillance technologies against civil society in Serbia.” Cellebrite’s spokesperson Victor Cooper declined to comment when TechCrunch asked whether this is a permanent or temporary suspension, and whether there is anything the customer can do to be reinstated.“Withdrawing licences from customers who misused the equipment for political reasons is a critical first step,” Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, the head of the Security Lab at Amnesty International, said in a statement. “Now, Serbian authorities must urgently conduct their own thorough and impartial investigations, hold those responsible to account, provide remedies to victims and establish adequate safeguards to prevent future abuse.”
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