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Spyware Maker NSO Group Found Liable for Hacking WhatsApp
2024-12-24 12:04

A judge has found that NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware, has violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking WhatsApp in order to spy on people using it. Jon Penney and I wrote a...

US court finds spyware maker NSO liable for WhatsApp hacks
2024-12-23 16:37

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group violated U.S. hacking laws by using WhatsApp zero-days to deploy Pegasus spyware on at least 1,400 devices. [...]

U.S. Judge Rules Against NSO Group in WhatsApp Pegasus Spyware Case
2024-12-23 09:20

Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp scored a major legal victory in its fight against Israeli commercial spyware vendor NSO Group after a federal judge in the U.S. state of California ruled in favor of...

NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
2024-11-27 12:05

The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries...

NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta's Lawsuit
2024-11-18 05:52

Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta's WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app...

NSO Group used another WhatsApp zero-day after being sued, court docs say
2024-11-15 22:04

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...

UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group
2024-09-19 12:16

4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed...

Apple Drops Spyware Case Against NSO Group, Citing Risk of Threat Intelligence Exposure
2024-09-16 07:12

Apple has filed a motion to "voluntarily" dismiss its lawsuit against commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, citing a shifting risk landscape that could lead to exposure of critical "threat...

U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp
2024-03-02 06:23

A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other products to Meta as part of the social media giant's ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor....

Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
2024-03-01 21:34

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.