{"id":10767,"date":"2026-02-19T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:04:31","slug":"citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist\u2019s Phone in Police Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist\u2019s Phone in Police Custody<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent dissident&#8217;s phone, making it the latest case of abuse of the technology targeting civil society.<br \/>\nThe interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Toronto&#8217;s Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/sorry\/index?continue=http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used.html&#038;q=EgSsR1HVGP_r2swGIi3Nd2AoGtDU0OGtmxHPISnkrSEKLI1YdatZFPMmgCeVE5WiOuewEnYtA4yR0WwyCT5yUmVDY25kaloBQw\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist\u2019s Phone in Police Custody New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent dissident&#8217;s phone, making it the latest case of abuse of the technology targeting civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-10767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}