The maker of Israeli spyware was found responsible for hacking WhatsApp
The Israeli spyware company was found responsible in the case of hacking the WhatsApp messenger.
According to Isna, a court in the United States held the Zionist company “NSO Group” responsible for the misuse of a software error in the WhatsApp messenger and the illegal installation of a spyware.
According to Reuters News agency, Phyllis Hamilton, the judge of the Oakland District Court in California, who is in charge of hearing the complai of the Meta company against the NSO, announced that this software company based in the occupied territories secretly installed spyware on electronic devices. Some people are responsible through WhatsApp messenger. This judge also announced that the investigation of WhatsApp’s complai against NSO will coinue only to determine the amou of damages.
WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart considered this court ruling a victory for users’ privacy ierests and said: “We have been involved in this case for five years, because we firmly believe that spyware companies should not have immunity or be held accouable for illegal actions. run away by themselves.”
NSO, the maker of the infamous Pegasus spyware, has come under fire for providing spying services to governmes around the world to eavesdrop on journalists, dissides and human rights activists.
This spyware eers the targeted computers and mobile phones without the possibility of tracking and spies on the victims by accessing the location, camera, microphone and all the information of the device.
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