Wednesday, 7 May, 2025

NSO Group Ordered to Pay Over $167 Million to WhatsApp in Landmark Spyware Case

A U.S. federal jury has mandated that Israeli spyware firm NSO Group pay WhatsApp $167.25 million in punitive damages and an additional $444,719 in compensatory damages. This verdict concludes a five-year legal battle over NSO's deployment of its Pegasus spyware, which exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp's audio-calling feature to hack approximately 1,400 users in 2019.