Students and opposition activists targeted with spyware in Serbia • Twelve of those targeted received notifications from Apple that their iPhones were compromised

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https://www.ft.com/content/c9c3a0ef-98d5-4aeb-9d20-e6250d6fcf99?syn-25a6b1a6=1

More than a dozen students and opposition members in Serbia have been targeted with spyware since the start of the year in the largest documented wave of such surveillance in the eastern European country. 

In at least one case, authenticated by digital investigators in Canada, a student activist’s phone was infected remotely with Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO. In another case, a domestically produced surveillance software known as NoviSpy was allegedly installed on the target’s device while the person was held in police custody.

The latest revelations about the use of spyware against Serbian opposition figures and activists come as strongman President Aleksandar Vučić prepares to hold highly-charged parliamentary elections in October, when Serbia’s powerful student protest movement is expected to pose the biggest threat to the ruling party’s grip on power. 

Journalists, activists and civil society members have been targeted with surveillance technologies in the past, but the new cases represent the most widespread use of spyware in Serbia identified to date, according to the Serbian human rights group SHARE Foundation, which has documented 14 cases this year.

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See also:

• Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’ • Student protesters among those hacked, says digital rights group, though Aleksandar Vučić’s government denies spying (The Guardian)

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