WhatsApp originally filed the suit in 2019, and investigations have found that Pegasus has been used to hack phones belonging to groups like activists, journalists, and government officials.

Once Pegasus is installed on a phone it gives the owner of the hack absolute control. It can execute commands and transfer any data — including passwords, contact lists, calendar events ...

WhatsApp, used by millions of people around the world, says its users were hacked by the Paragon Solutions spyware company.

Without citing sources, the Calcalist financial daily said police have possessed the Pegasus spyware made by Israel's NSO Group - which is now on a US government blacklist -- since 2013.

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"The significance is that with Pegasus, the police can effectively hack without asking a court, without a search or entry warrant, without oversight, to all cell phones." In a separate report ...

The government on Wednesday said personal data of 20 WhatsApp users out of the 121 users targeted using Pegasus spyware may have been accessed by the attacker. Facebook-owned Whatsapp had said ...