Security researchers have discovered spyware covertly implanted on the phone of a Russian programmer who’d been held in custody by Russian authorities for supplying monetary aid to war-stricken victims in Ukraine.
In June, The First Department, a legal assistance organization founded by exiled Russian human rights lawyer Ivan Pavlov, received a report from Kirill Parubets, a Russian programmer who’d been released from two weeks of administrative detention by the Russian Federal Security Service