Following the spyware attack, WhatsApp filed its lawsuit against NSO Group in November 2019. Despite the active legal ...

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.

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

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

NSO Group, the Israeli spyware-maker behind Pegasus, must pay Meta $167.25 million for hacking 1,400 users across WhatsApp. A federal jury in California made the decision on Tuesday after the court ...

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

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 ...

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 ...