Judges strike skeptical note of NSO Group’s argument to dismiss case from El Salvadoran journos

Pegasus spyware targeted 100 WhatsApp users in India, second-highest globally

WhatsApp users in 51 countries were targeted during a hacking campaign in 2019, a United States court document showed.

Judges strike skeptical note of NSO Group’s argument to dismiss case from El Salvadoran journos

A panel of U.S. judges considering an appeal of a ruling that went against El Salvadoran journalists suing NSO Group over alleged infections of their phone by the company’s Pegasus spyware appeared more skeptical Thursday of the vendor’s arguments than those of the reporters. Judge James Donato of the District Court for the Northern District of California granted NSO Group’s motion to dismiss the suit last year in Dada et al v. NSO Group, conclu…

The Netherlands is the second European country with the most victims after Spain. It is unclear who is behind the attacks.

Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware

The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per one researcher.

Luxembourg-linked spyware targeted 1,223 phones across 51 countries, lawsuit says

Israeli spyware firm NSO Group's Pegasus software targeted 1,223 phones across 51 countries in 2019, according to court documents unsealed in a lawsuit filed by WhatsApp against NSO Group. The lawsuit alleges that NSO used a security flaw in WhatsApp's messaging app to target individuals, including journalists, lawyers, politicians, and human rights activists. The documents reveal that the highest number of victims were in Mexico, followed by In…

A court document reveals the victims' locations, servers used for the attacks and the origin of the attacks with the Pegasus spyware on a WhatsApp gap.