The Israeli firm behind the Pegasus spyware has been ordered to pay WhatsApp $167m (£125m) for hacking 1,400 people in 2019.

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

NSO Group, the Israeli spyware-maker behind Pegasus, must pay Meta $167.25 million for hacking 1,400 users across WhatsApp. A ...

The NSO Group has been ordered to pay Meta millions after a jury ruled it illegally used its Pegasus spyware to infiltrate WhatsApp and spy ...

On Tuesday, WhatsApp scored a major victory against ... had cut off 10 of its government customers for abusing its Pegasus spyware, the locations of 1,223 of the victims of the spyware campaign ...

The judgment bolsters efforts by the United States government to draw red lines around the use of commercial spyware.

Simply sign up to the Cyber Security myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. WhatsApp won a $168mn jury verdict in a case against NSO Group, the Israeli maker of Pegasus spyware, for ...

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

An eight-person jury granted Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages to cover the costs of addressing the breach, plus an ...

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The firm behind the Pegasus spyware has been ordered to pay WhatsApp $167m (£125m) for hacking 1,400 people in 2019. Pegasus is malicious software which can be installed remotely on mobile phones ...