03 Mar, 2025

Serbian police used Cellebrite zero-day hack to unlock Android phones

Serbian authorities have reportedly used an Android zero-day exploit chain developed by Cellebrite to unlock the device of a student activist in the country and attempt to install spyware. Cellebrite is an Israeli digital forensics company that develops tools used by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and private companies to extract data from smartphones and other digital […]

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New Android NoviSpy spyware linked to Qualcomm zero-day bugs

The Serbian government exploited Qualcomm zero-days to unlock and infect Android devices with a new spyware named ‘NoviSpy,’ used to spy on activists, journalists, and protestors. One of the Qualcomm flaws linked to the attacks is CVE-2024-43047, which was marked as an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability by Google Project Zero in October 2024 and received a fix on Android in […]

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