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Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2024-03-01

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Thomas Claburn

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A U.S. federal judge ordered NSO Group to provide source code for Pegasus and related spyware to WhatsApp as part of a 2019 lawsuit alleging NSO exploited CVE-2019-3568 in WhatsApp to deliver malicious code and infect roughly 1,400 target devices—including journalists, activists, diplomats—while allowing NSO to withhold its client list and server-architecture details; the article also reviews regulatory, legal, and advocacy reactions to commercial spyware.

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