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Mehul Reuben DasJan 10, 2023 10:52:04 ISTThe Supreme Court of the United States has decided to allow Meta and WhatsApp to pursue a lawsuit against Israel’s NSO Group for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp and installing spyware on the devices of over 1400 people across the world. The Israel-based security firm has also been accused of facilitating the illegaly spying of journalists, human rights activists, politicians and political dissidents across the world. Israel’s NSO has been seeking immunity claiming it was acting as an…

The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.The justices turned away NSO's appeal of a lower court's decision that the lawsuit could move forward. NSO had argued that it is immune from being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments when it installed…

Fifteen staffers of El Faro, a Salvadoran online news outlet, sued the Israeli company NSO Group for allegedly providing spyware that was used to hack into journalists’ mobile phones. (Bloomberg) -- Fifteen staffers of El Faro, a Salvadoran online news outlet, sued the Israeli company NSO Group for allegedly providing spyware that was used to hack into journalists' mobile phones. “These spyware attacks were an attempt to silence our sources and deter us from doing journalism,” Carlos Dada, El Faro's co-founder and…

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has proved his dislike of journalists in the past, and a report from this year showed his government used Pegasus spyware to infect reporters’ phones.Photo: MARVIN RECINOS/AF (Getty Images)A number of El Salvador-based journalists are suing the notorious makers of the prolific Pegasus spyware suite in U.S. court, alleging the company sold the repressive Bukele regime spyware used to hack their phones.In the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Jose, California, attorneys…

Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images)The FBI came very close to using commercial spyware to aid in its domestic criminal investigations, the New York Times has reported. The spyware was developed by the NSO Group, the notorious surveillance vendor from Israel whose products have been tied to spying scandals all over the world.In January, the Times broke the news that the FBI had been considering procuring a surveillance system called “Phantom” from NSO that could reportedly hack any phone in the United States. The toolwas a…

The Mexican attorney general's office said it is investigating the purchase of Pegasus computer spyware by the previous administration and whether it was carried out legally. In a statement, the office referred to existing probes of two people, including a prominent ex-official, into the use of Pegasus spyware, days after the current government denied it had spied on journalists or critics. Pegasus belongs to Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, which typically only sells the software to governments or law enforcement…

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Israel's NSO Group, which makes Pegasus spyware that is controversial worldwide, said Sunday its CEO was leaving his post as part of a reorganisation.The indebted, privately owned company also said it would focus sales on countries belonging to the NATO alliance.In July last year, a multinational journalistic investigation revealed that Pegasus spyware had been sold by NSO to governments around the world and used against human rights activists, politicians, reporters, and others."NSO Group announced today the company will…

Following more than two years of controversy, the chief executive officer of Pegasus spyware creator NSO Group is stepping down. On Sunday, co-founder and outgoing CEO Shalev Hulio said he was handing over operations of the company to chief operating officer Yaron Shohat as part of a restructuring that will see it refocus on NATO-member countries. According to , NSO is also cutting its headcount. The firm reportedly plans to lay off about 100 employees before it appoints a permanent replacement for Hulio. The…

TEL AVIV—The Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group is replacing its chief executive and will lay off 100 employees, the firm said Sunday, in a reorganization that comes after criticism that clients have abused its powerful spyware. The move follows a U.S. decision last year to blacklist NSO over allegations that its surveillance software, called Pegasus, has been used inappropriately. Those pressures have put the company at risk of defaulting on debt that Moody’s Corp. estimated was…