Pegasus spyware maker NSO Group is liable for attacks on 1,400 WhatsApp users

NSO Group, the enactment down the Pegasus spyware, has been recovered liable successful a suit brought by Meta’s WhatsApp implicit attacks connected astir 1,400 devices, as reported by The Record.

NSO Group is liable for charges of usurpation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, usurpation of the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, and breach of contract, according to today’s ruling. A proceedings volition present determination guardant “only connected the contented of damages.” The spyware shaper has argued that it isn’t liable due to the fact that Pegasus was operated by clients investigating crimes and cases of nationalist information but the justice rejected those arguments, which could found a precedent for different companies successful the aforesaid business.

“This ruling is simply a immense triumph for privacy,” Will Cathcart, the caput of WhatsApp, says successful a Threads post. “We spent 5 years presenting our lawsuit due to the fact that we firmly judge that spyware companies could not fell down immunity oregon debar accountability for their unlawful actions. Surveillance companies should beryllium connected announcement that amerciable spying volition not beryllium tolerated.”

NSO Group didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.