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 ...

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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 ...

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Meta has been awarded $168 million after a Californian jury ruled that Israeli spyware firm NSO unlawfully planted a bug in WhatsApp to spy on users in 2019.

Analysis: In calling itself an ethical spyware vendor, Paragon has opened itself up to scrutiny of its government customers.

First detected in July 2024, DCHSpy is assessed to be the handiwork of MuddyWater, an Iranian nation-state group tied to MOIS ...

WhatsApp filed suit against NSO in 2019 in U.S. federal court, alleging it hacked 1,400 WhatsApp users, including journalists and government officials, using its Pegasus surveillance tool.

As Meta crafted a detailed timeline of events of the spyware's 2019 attack on WhatsApp users, the defendants NSO Group claimed the tech giant's "fixes" were really attempts to steal the program for ...

The U.S. government has banned WhatsApp from devices used by U.S. House of Representatives staff, saying the app poses ...

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 ...

WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart said in a post on X that “the jury’s verdict today to punish NSO is a critical deterrent to the spyware industry against their illegal acts aimed at American ...