Israeli NSO Group Fined $168M for Pegasus Spyware Attack on WhatsApp
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A U.S. federal jury ordered Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group to pay approximately $168 million to WhatsApp and Meta after finding that NSO deployed its Pegasus spyware in 2019 by exploiting a WhatsApp video-call vulnerability to infect about 1,400 devices belonging to journalists, human rights activists, diplomats and others; Meta called the ruling a major privacy victory while NSO denied wrongdoing and plans to appeal.
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