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 ...

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 ...

Spyware attack against WhatsApp: NSO Group wants new trial Sentenced to pay a fine of 167 million US dollars, Pegasus manufacturer NSO Group files a motion to dismiss or reargue the case.

Last December, WhatsApp won.Judge Phyllis Hamilton, who presided over the case, ruled that NSO Group was liable for breaching federal and California hacking laws in its 2019 spyware campaign ...

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 ...

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.

Spyware-maker NSO ordered to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp. The jury verdict hands a huge loss to the Israel-based company, already banned from use in the U.S., after a years-long legal fight.

Read more: Spyware Maker NSO Group Liable for WhatsApp User Hacks. NSO’s Pegasus Exploited WhatsApp Zero-Day Vulnerability. NSO Group’s Pegasus is a type of "zero-click" spyware, allowing attackers to ...

Spyware such as Pegasus from the NSO Group is increasingly becoming a political problem. This was one of the findings of the ...

A U.S. federal jury has ordered Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group to pay WhatsApp $167,254,000 in punitive damages and $444,719 in compensatory damages for a 2019 campaign that targeted 1,400 users ...

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.