Security News > 2025 > May > NSO Group Fined $168M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware
2025-05-07 06:22
A federal jury on Tuesday decided that NSO Group must pay Meta-owned WhatsApp WhatsApp approximately $168 million in monetary damages, more than four months after a federal judge ruled that the Israeli company violated U.S. laws by exploiting WhatsApp servers to deploy Pegasus spyware, targeting over 1,400 individuals globally. WhatsApp originally filed the lawsuit against NSO Group in 2019,
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