Judge rules Israeli firm NSO Group liable for damages in WhatsApp hacking case

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CNN — Messaging service WhatsApp claimed a major legal victory over Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on Friday after a federal judge ruled that NSO was liable under federal ...

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The company has previously denied wrongdoing and said that its products are used to fight crime and terrorism.\n    \n\n            “Surveillance companies should be on notice that illegal spying will not be tolerated,” Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp, said in a social media post.\n    \n\n            The market for commercial spyware has exploded over the last decade as companies from Israel to North Macedonia have hawked their services and many governments have been willing buyers. At least 74 countries have contracted with private firms to obtain commercial spyware, the US intelligence agencies said in their annual threat assessment.\n    \n\n            The Biden administration has tried to crack down on spyware makers, particularly after the State Department discovered in 2021 that the iPhones of about a dozen of its diplomats were hacked using NSO Group-developed spyware.\n    \n\n            US officials have been alarmed by a “very aggressive effort” by spyware vendors to market their hacking tools to various US agencies, a US National Security Council official previously told CNN.\n    \n\n            The FBI, for example, confirmed in 2022 that the bureau bought a testing license for Pegasus. The FBI has not used Pegasus in investigations, according to the bureau.\n    \n\n            Friday’s ruling in favor of WhatsApp “sets a precedent that will be cited for years to come,” said John Scott-Railton, a researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, who has investigated the use of NSO Group’s spyware.\n    \n\n            “This is the most-watched case about mercenary spyware and everyone is going to take note,” Scott-Railton told CNN. The ruling could have a “chilling effect” on efforts by other spyware companies to enter the US market, he added.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"-1","news_tag":"policyRegulatory","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.3","shortVersion":"4.29.3","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2493528938"}