Our team @AmnestyTech is available to support journalists and activists who are concerned about targeted spyware attacks. Please reach out if concerned and share widely with individuals in your networks who may be at risk. https://t.co/b6t9oCPGTr

SCOOP: A man who worked on developing hacking tools for defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant was notified by Apple that his iPhone was targeted with spyware. It's unclear who targeted him, but he believes he was the scapegoat of a leak investigation. https://t.co/dWAhfdE6Tw

People often ask what it's like behind the scenes at the world's top spy tech trade fair, ISS World. Turns out it's like this

The jawdropping revelations from @LHreports on the global location surveillance industry is an urgent wake up call. The little regulation in the EU and elsewhere is insufficient to protect us, industry where lawlessness appears rampant.

A new @LHreports investigation shows how First Wap, a surveillance company registered in Indonesia, has allegedly been covertly selling its products to state & private actors by exploiting gaps in export control regulations in the surveillance industry. https://t.co/AeewdPuxxM

It was a privilege to deliver the closing keynote at Hexacon yesterday. Great conference! Kudos to the organisers for featuring a defenders perspective. Thanks too to the many offensive researchers who engaged with an open mind, and then many interesting discussions.

Arrived in Paris for what should be an very interesting few days at Hexacon. I welcome DM's or just say hello at the conference in you want to chat

Alaa is FREE 🎉 After 6 years of unjust imprisonment, Alaa Abdel Fattah is finally reunited with his loved ones. His freedom is a powerful reminder that persistence matters. Thank you to every Amnesty supporter who campaigned tirelessly for his release 💛

Really excited to have the opportunity to speak at Hexacon next month! I'll share a defender's perspective on offensive cyber based on 10 years of technical investigations into in-the-wild campaigns impacting activists, journalists and civil society.

Pakistan is running a huge unlawful surveillance and censorship system. It is built with foreign tech and carried out without warrants and safeguards, this is enabling human rights abuses on a massive scale. #BreakTheFirewall

Our partner at InterSecLab also have an excellent technical report which analyze a huge leak of Geedge technical docs revealing how Geedge - and likely the Great Firewall - can analyze and block traffic, and even inject targeted spyware infections

Amnesty's full report goes deep into the history of surveillance technology in Pakistan and the wide range of Chinese, European, Emirati and North American technology vendors which have enabled a wide-scale surveillance apparatus https://t.co/5nKObL0LD4

BREAKING: Amnesty International research found illegal surveillance mass targeted surveillance with LIMS from Utimaco and Datafusion and Chinese commercialized Great Firewall provider active in Pakistan through a leak of documents of Geedge Networks. 🧵#BreakTheFirewall

Jurre van Bergen (@DrWhax) who lead this research at @AmnestyTech has a thread going deep into the findings on Geedge Networks and the Pakstani surveillance ecosystem. https://t.co/lFQYyO1NdI

This investigation would not have been possible without the excellent collaboration between civil society and media partners InterSecLab, Justice For Myanmar, @torproject , @paper_trail_m, Follow The Money, @derStandardat and @globeandmail.

Great Firewall Export: A new investigation by @Amnesty and partners, reveals Geedge Networks, a Chinese company, which is commercialized the tech behind China's notorious "Great Firewall". Geedge surveillance and censorship products found used in Pakistan, Myanmar, and more.

Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media, in one of the most comprehensive examples of state surveillance outside China, Amnesty International said

Also important: the Apple vulnerability was in a core image library, targeting possible through other apps besides WhatsApp. Make sure to update your devices and enabled iOS Lockdown Mode or Android‘s Advanced Protection Mode to help protect against attacks like this

Early indications are that the WhatsApp attack is impacting both iPhone and Android users, civil society individuals among them. Government spyware continues to pose a threat to journalists and human rights defenders. Kudos to WhatsApp and Apple for catching it and notifying

CVE-2025-55177, an authorization bypass in WhatsApp on iOS and Mac, allowed attackers to force "content from arbitrary URL" to be rendered on a target’s device.. A zero-click vulnerability recently patched by Apple (CVE-2025-43300) was also used in the WhatsApp attack 👀

Our team at Amnesty International's Security Lab is actively investigating cases with a number of individuals targeted in this campaign. We are available to support members of civil society who have received the WhatsApp notifications. Contact us at share@amnesty.tech