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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WhatsApp alleged that the NSO group created multiple WhatsApp accounts between January 2018 and May 2019, using phone numbers registered across different countries including Cyprus, Israel, ...

Messaging service WhatsApp claimed a major legal victory over Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on Friday after a federal judge ruled that NSO was liable under federal and California law for a 2019 ...

Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group reportedly used multiple zero-day exploits, including an unknown one named "Erised," that leveraged WhatsApp vulnerabilities to deploy Pegasus spyware in zero ...

WhatsApp had sued the NSO Group in October 2019 for exploiting a since-then fixed vulnerability in the messaging app that allowed attackers to plant NSO’s Pegasus in users’ phone just by ...

WhatsApp is suing NSO Group, saying that the Israeli company was behind a cyberattack that installed spyware on users’ phones and targeted at least 100 human rights defenders, journalists and ...

WhatsApp just took a hard new line against the malware industry, suing notorious Israeli surveillance contractor NSO Group for attacks on more than a thousand of its users.The case could mark a ...

Although blame fell fast on NSO Group, WhatsApp did not publicly accuse the company at the time — until now. Techcrunch event. Save $200+ on your TechCrunch All Stage pass Build smarter.

WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, claimed in the lawsuit that an NSO Group program that was intended to piggyback on WhatsApp was used to spy on more than 1,400 people in 20 countries.