Security News > 2024 > March > Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code

NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for "All relevant spyware" with Meta's WhatsApp.

The order [PDF] from Judge Phyllis Hamilton follows from WhatsApp's 2019 lawsuit [PDF] against NSO for allegedly spying on 1,400 WhatsApp users.

Judge Hamilton's ruling covers Pegasus and other relevant NSO spyware during the period from April 29, 2018 to May 10, 2020.

The US has sanctioned commercial spyware vendors like NSO Group, Intellexa, and Cytrox.

NSO Group has maintained that it only sells spyware to government customers for notionally lawful surveillance.

"NSO Group says that it only sells Pegasus to authorized government customers," Cearbhaill told The Register.

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