Meta-owned WhatsApp sued NSO in late 2019 in federal court in Northern California, accusing it of planting Pegasus spy software on the smartphones of targets using the messaging app.
“Put simply, NSO's Pegasus works to covertly compromise people’s phones with spyware capable of hoovering up information from any app installed on the device.”
WhatsApp accused NSO of cyberespionage targeting journalists, lawyers, human rights activists and others on the Facebook-owned messaging service.
“We will carefully examine the verdict’s details and pursue appropriate legal remedies, including further proceedings and an appeal,“ NSO vice president for global communication Gil Lainer said in response to an AFP inquiry.
Evidence presented at the trial said NSO had spyware installation methods to exploit the technology of companies other than Meta, spending tens of millions of dollars annually on ways to install malicious code through messaging, browsers and operating systems, according to Meta.
The software has been pinpointed by independent experts as likely being used in a number of countries with poor human rights records.
“These malicious technologies are a threat to the entire ecosystem and it’ll take all of us to defend against it.”
Infecting smartphones or other gadgets being used for WhatsApp messages meant the content of messages encrypted during transmission could be accessed after they were unscrambled for recipients.
Founded in 2010 by Israelis Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, NSO Group is based in the Israeli seaside hi-tech hub of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
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