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Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite<\/a> was used to compromise the phone of a Serbian student who had been critical of that country’s government.<\/p>\n

The human rights organization first called out Serbian authorities in December<\/a> for what it said was its \u201cpervasive and routine use of spyware\u201d as part of a campaign of \u201cwider state control and repression directed against civil society.\u201d That report said the authorities were deploying exploits sold by Cellebrite and NSO, a separate exploit seller whose practices have also been sharply criticized over the past decade. In response to the December report, Cellebrite said it had suspended sales to \u201crelevant customers\u201d in Serbia.<\/p>\n

Campaign of surveillance<\/h2>\n

On Friday, Amnesty International said that it uncovered evidence of a new incident. It involves the sale by Cellebrite of an attack chain that could defeat the lock screen of fully patched Android devices. The exploits were used against a Serbian student who had been critical of Serbian officials. The chain exploited a series of vulnerabilities in device drivers the Linux kernel uses to support USB hardware.<\/p>\n

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