Security News > 2024 > December > Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware
2024-12-16 18:10
Serbian police and intelligence officers used Cellebrite forensic extraction software to unlock journalists’ and activists’ phones and install previously unknown Android spyware called NoviSpy, a new Amnesty International report claims. The unlocking was made possible through exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability affecting chipsets made by Qualcomm. In early October 2024, Qualcomm fixed CVE-2024-43047, reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Amnesty International as exploited in the wild. Google followed with a fix for Android … More → The post Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware appeared first on Help Net Security.
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-07 | CVE-2024-43047 | Use After Free vulnerability in Qualcomm products Memory corruption while maintaining memory maps of HLOS memory. | 7.8 |