At the heart of this legal battle is NSO Group, the developer of Pegasus, a spyware tool of notorious capability. Pegasus has ...

An eight-person jury granted Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages to cover the costs of addressing the breach, plus an ...

NSO charged European governments millions of dollars for their spyware platform.

On May 6, 2025, a U.S. court in California ordered NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, to pay $168 million in damages. The judgment was the result of a lawsuit filed by Meta Platforms, the owner of ...

A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to ...

The NSO Group has been ordered to pay Meta millions after a jury ruled it illegally used its Pegasus spyware to infiltrate WhatsApp and spy ...

Meta had sued the firm, NSO Group, for using its spyware to hack 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, dissidents and others. By Eli Tan and Sheera Frenkel Reporting from San Francisco ...

The ruling is a major win for privacy advocates and those pushing back against NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus software.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Meta Platforms won a $168 million verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said Tuesday, capping a six-year arm wrestling match between America's ...

The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations. We recap some of them here.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel's NSO Group was handed a $168 million penalty by a federal jury in California on Tuesday for hijacking the servers of WhatsApp in order to hack users of the Meta-owned ...