Spyware maker NSO Group will have to pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for a 2019 hacking campaign against more than 1,400 users.

Last week, NSO was ordered to pay Meta for targeting WhatsApp users. Now, TechCrunch has a report on the 1,000+ page transcript of the trial.

WhatsApp argued in one of the court documents that, “NSO’s customers’ role is minimal,” given that the government customers only needed to input the phone number of the target’s device ...

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 ...

Q&A Litigators of the Week: Spyware-Maker NSO Group Hit With $168M Verdict for Hacking WhatsApp A trial team led by Greg Andres, Antonio Perez-Marques and Micah Block of Davis Polk & Wardwell ...

Judge Finds Israel’s NSO Group Liable for Hacking in WhatsApp Lawsuit The Meta messaging app was breached by the spyware maker, which was accused of putting Pegasus monitoring software on users ...

In 2022, WhatsApp and Google Play were banned by the Iranian government during nationwide protests after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Iran restored access to WhatsApp and ...

The logo of the Israeli NSO Group company appears on a building where they had offices in Herzliya, Israel. (AP Photo/Daniella Cheslow, File) OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Meta presented the bulk of its case ...

A US jury has ordered the Pegasus seller NSO Group to pay $167 million to WhatsApp for hacking into users' phones using an app vulnerability.

A California jury ordered NSO Group Technologies to pay WhatsApp $444,719 in compensatory damages and $167,254,000 in punitive damages on Tuesday. The jury found that 'NSO engaged in malice, oppressio ...

A federal judge in California has declared that Israel-based NSO Group violated the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when it designed its Pegasus phone spyware to leverage Meta's WhatsApp servers ...