Russia Used Cellebrite’s UFED to Breach an Activist’s iPhone — and the Tools Kept Working
In June 2021, Russian authorities seized the devices of opposition figure Andrey Pivovarov and, according to a forensic report later analyzed by Citizen Lab, used traces of Cellebrite’s Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) to extract messages and search for political names. The case is striking because it appears to show forensic use of Cellebrite technology months after the company publicly said it had terminated contracts with Russian customers — raising…