NSO Group, the organization behind the Pegasus spyware, has been found liable in a lawsuit brought by Meta’s WhatsApp over attacks on about 1,400 devices, as reported by The Record. NSO Group is liable for charges of violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,

Messaging giant WhatsApp won a landmark ruling Friday against the best-known maker of spyware when a federal judge in California ruled that NSO Group had hacked into the Meta unit’s systems by sending malicious software through its servers to more than a thousand targeted phones.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance to block a law intended to force the sale of the short-video app by Jan. 19 or face a ban on national security grounds.

WhatsApp has prevailed against Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in a US lawsuit over NSO’s abuse of the messaging app to infiltrate the phones of journalists, activists and dissidents with its Pegasus hacking tool.

A US federal judge has ruled that NSO Group, the Israeli maker of the controversial Pegasus spyware, violated state and federal US hacking laws in a case filed by WhatsApp. The lawsuit accused NSO Group of infecting the phones of 1,400 individuals over a two-week period in May 2019.

California District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton granted the Meta-owned messaging service platform's motion for summary judgment against NSTO, finding the five-year-old case that it had violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act with the pernicious spying program known as Pegasus, reported The Washington Post.

WhatsApp has won its case against the NSO Group, the firm behind the Pegasus spyware used by governments for surveillance.

A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, in a lawsuit against the Israeli firm NSO Group. The lawsuit accused NSO

A California judge ruled against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group in a lawsuit filed by WhatsApp, accusing NSO of exploiting a bug to install Pegasus sp

The NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company, has been held liable for hacking WhatsApp and breaching its contract. This decision, made by a US judge, has significant implications for the spyware industry.