{"id":7044,"date":"2026-02-18T18:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used-on-kenyan-activists-phone-in-police-custody\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:11:41","slug":"citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used-on-kenyan-activists-phone-in-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used-on-kenyan-activists-phone-in-police-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist\u2019s Phone in Police Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNew 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\u00a0New 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNew 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. The interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Toronto&#8217;s Munk School of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/citizen-lab-finds-cellebrite-tool-used-on-kenyan-activists-phone-in-police-custody\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist\u2019s Phone in Police Custody<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}