NSO Group Ordered to Pay $168 Million to WhatsApp for Pegasus Spyware Use
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A federal jury on Tuesday ordered the NSO Group to pay approximately $168 million in damages to WhatsApp, owned by Meta. This decision comes more than four months after a federal judge ruled that the Israeli company had violated U.S. laws by exploiting WhatsApp's servers to deploy the Pegasus spyware, targeting more than 1,400 people worldwide. WhatsApp had initially filed a lawsuit against the NSO Group in 2019.