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Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student’s phone
Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On
On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student protester’s phone in Serbia. Then, last year, after investigating the hack of a student activist in Serbia, the organization shared its findings with Google’s anti-hacking unit Threat Analysis Group, which led the company researchers to identify and fix the three separate flaws. Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, a digital rights organization that investigates spyware, wrote on X that activists, journalists, and members of civil society “who might have their phone seized by authorities (protest, border, etc.)
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