The ruling is a major win for privacy advocates and those pushing back against NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus software.

The five-year legal battle between the Meta-owned company and the most notorious spyware maker in the world ends with a huge win for WhatsApp.

A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for ...

A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to ...

The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations. We recap some of them here.

Meta had sued the firm, NSO Group, for using its spyware to hack 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, dissidents and others. By Eli Tan and Sheera Frenkel Reporting from San Francisco ...

A jury ordered huge punitive damages against NSO, the Israel-based maker of spyware already banned from use in the U.S.

NSO charged European governments millions of dollars for their spyware platform.

On May 6, 2025, a U.S. court in California ordered NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, to pay $168 million in damages. The judgment was the result of a lawsuit filed by Meta Platforms, the owner of ...

A landmark antitrust trial accusing the social media giant of cementing its dominance through acquiring Instagram and ...