Meta just scored a significant win in its long-running battle against NSO Group, the makers of Pegasus spyware. A US jury has awarded Meta $167 million in damages against the spyware maker.

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.

Image: Shutterstock Social media giant Meta won $167 million in punitive damages after a California jury slammed Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group over a hack that involved 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices ...

Meta Platforms, Inc. META -owned WhatsApp has secured a $168 million jury verdict against NSO Group, the Israeli firm behind the controversial Pegasus spyware, over a 2019 hacking incident.

Journalists, activists and human rights workers across the globe are being targeted by mercenary spyware - powerful ...

WhatsApp owner Meta is awarded millions of dollars in damages and compensation after its service was exploited by users of mercenary spyware developer NSO’s infamous Pegasus mobile malware.

A trial team led by Greg Andres, Antonio Perez-Marques and Micah Block of Davis Polk & Wardwell convinced jurors that NSO Group, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, “engaged in ...

Messaging giant WhatsApp won a landmark ruling Friday against the best-known maker of spyware when a federal judge in California ruled that NSO Group had hacked into the Meta unit’s systems by ...

In 2020, Meta escalated its lawsuit and accused the firm of using US-based servers to stage its Pegasus spyware attacks.

Meta is currently asking for over $440,000 in compensatory damages to remedy the costs of investigating malicious code on its servers, as well as unspecified punitive damages. Originally designed as a ...