Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left

Citizen Lab researchers found forensic evidence that Russian authorities used Cellebrite's UFED phone-cracking tool to extract data from the iPhone of opposition politician Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021 — three months after Cellebrite publicly announced it had stopped selling to Russia. A Russian court document from Pivovarov's prosecution explicitly names Cellebrite UFED as the tool used to extract WhatsApp and Telegram messages. Cellebrite confirmed it terminated licenses in March 2021 but called any subsequent use 'unauthorized.' Researchers argue the case exposes a systemic gap: surveillance tools remain operational after a vendor cuts ties, and Cellebrite should remotely disable devices and watermark extracted data to end plausible deniability. The pattern has been documented in Hong Kong, Kenya, Jordan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Serbia.

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