On May 6, WhatsApp scored a major victory against NSO Group when a jury ordered the infamous spyware maker to pay more than $167 million in damages to the Meta-owned company. The ruling concluded ...

Israel's NSO Group was handed a $168 million penalty by a federal jury in California on Tuesday for hijacking the servers of WhatsApp in order to hack users of the Meta-owned chat platform on ...

Israeli spyware company NSO Group was ordered by a U.S. federal court on Tuesday to pay WhatsApp and its parent company Meta almost $170 million in damages after its cyber tools were used to hack ...

The litigation also exposed who some of NSO’s customers were and the location of many of the targeted WhatsApp users. NSO Group didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

While we’ve seen no public instances of governments having a backdoor into WhatsApp, in May, the Israeli cyber-intelligence ...

Last week, Israeli firm NSO Group, best known for its Pegasus spyware targeting iPhones and Android devices, was ordered to pay Meta more than $167M for targeting WhatsApp users.. Now, TechCrunch ...

The Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group was ordered on Tuesday to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, capping a six-year legal battle after NSO hacked 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to ...

Iranian officials had warned people to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other "location-based applications," according to a ...

Q&A Litigators of the Week: Spyware-Maker NSO Group Hit With $168M Verdict for Hacking WhatsApp A trial team led by Greg Andres, Antonio Perez-Marques and Micah Block of Davis Polk & Wardwell ...

NSO admitted that it kept targeting WhatsApp users after the lawsuit was filed. Following the spyware attack, WhatsApp filed its lawsuit against NSO Group in November 2019.

On May 6, WhatsApp scored a major victory against NSO Group when a jury ordered the infamous spyware maker to pay more than $167 million in damages to the Meta-owned company. The ruling concluded ...