WhatsApp Accuses NSO of Fresh Pegasus Targeting

·Citizen Lab··

Meta’s WhatsApp said it will ask a US court to hold NSO Group in contempt, accusing the Israeli maker of Pegasus of once again using WhatsApp to try to lure targets into downloading the surveillance spyware. This violates a court order from last year that banned NSO Group from such practices. Speaking to Financial Times, senior researcher John Scott-Railton says “NSO Group is behaving just like the dictators they service — treating US courts as something to bypass, and hope that nobody notices.”...

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