ICYMI (story broke late Friday evening): A judge has ordered NSO Group to stop targeting WhatsApp users.
At the same time the judge reduced the damages the spyware maker had to pay to WhatsApp from $167 million to $4M, becasue there was no evidence NSO’s behavior was “particularly egregious."
Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp | TechCrunch
A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting the messaging app’s users. At the same time, the judge dramatically reduced the fine that NSO Group must pay to Meta.
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