Cellebrite Announce It blocked Serbia on Tuesday from accusing Serbian police and intelligence companies of using Cellebrite’s technology to unlock calls from journalists and activists, followed by the allegations from Plant Plant Spyware.
In December 2024, Amnesty International published a report saying Serbian police accused of using Cellebrite forensic tools Breaking into the cell phones of local journalists and activists. Once the phone is unlocked, the Serbian authorities installed an Android spyware, which The amnesty is called Novispycontinue to monitor both.
In the statementCellebrite said: “After reviewing the allegations filed in the December 2024 Amnesty International Report, Cellebrite took the exact steps to investigate each claim based on our ethics and integrity policies. We found that the relevant customers were stopped at this time. The use of products is appropriate.”
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Cellebrite does not name the client in this statement. But in December, when it initially responded to the report of the amnesty report, the company said it was aware of the nonprofit’s “results in the use of surveillance technology in Serbian civil society.”
Cellebrite spokesman Victor Cooper declined to comment when TechCrunch asked if it was a permanent or temporary suspension and whether customers could recover customers.
“Retraction of licenses from customers who abuse equipment for political reasons is a crucial first step,” Donnchaó Cearbhaill, head of Amnesty International Security Laboratory, In a statement said. “Now, the Serbian authorities must urgently conduct their own thorough and impartial investigations, hold the person in charge, provide remedies to the victims and establish adequate safeguards to prevent future abuse.”
