NSO Group – whose technology is reported to have been used against dozens of targets including Pakistani intelligence officials, Indian journalists and exiled Rwandan political activists – also claimed in legal documents that the lawsuit brought against the company by WhatsApp threatened to infringe on its clients’ “national security and foreign policy concerns”. Source: NSO...
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October 30, 2019September 19, 2020by Jefferson MorleyIn ActivitiesBlogIsrael/PalestineMiddle EastSurveillance
WhatsApp Sues NSO, the Israeli Tech Firm, for Spyware Targeting Activists and Journalists
From The New Yorker: On Tuesday, WhatsApp took the extraordinary step of announcing that it had traced the malware back to NSO Group, a spyware-maker based in Israel, and filed a lawsuit against the company—and also its parent, Q Cyber Technologies—in a Northern California court, accusing it of “unlawful access and use” of WhatsApp computers....