{"id":13543,"date":"2024-02-29T20:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/court-orders-maker-of-pegasus-spyware-to-hand-over-code-to-whatsapp\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:39:01","slug":"court-orders-maker-of-pegasus-spyware-to-hand-over-code-to-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/court-orders-maker-of-pegasus-spyware-to-hand-over-code-to-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta\u2019s messaging app of spying on 14,000 users over a two-week period <\/p>\n<p>NSO Group, the maker of one the world\u2019s most sophisticated cyber weapons, has been ordered by a US court to hand its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp as part of the company\u2019s ongoing litigation.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by Judge Phyllis Hamilton is a major legal victory for WhatsApp, the Meta-owned communication app which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/oct\/29\/whatsapp-sues-israeli-firm-accusing-it-of-hacking-activists-phones\">has been embroiled in a lawsuit against NSO since 2019<\/a>, when it alleged that the Israeli company\u2019s spyware had been used against 1,400 WhatsApp users over a two-week period.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/29\/pegasus-surveillance-code-whatsapp-meta-lawsuit-nso-group\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b54e794b6553cddd82c52adf03b6b325c3ddfcc5\/0_117_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=85655b6200526171846e99b482149d08\" title=\"Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp\" \/>Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta\u2019s messaging app of spying on 14,000 users over a two-week period<br \/>\nNSO Group, the maker of one the world\u2019s most sophisticated cyber weapons, has been ordered by a US court to hand its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp as part of the company\u2019s ongoing litigation.<br \/>\nThe decision by Judge Phyllis Hamilton is a major legal victory for WhatsApp, the Meta-owned communication app which has been embroiled in a lawsuit against NSO since 2019, when it alleged that the Israeli company\u2019s spyware had been used against 1,400 WhatsApp users over a two-week period. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta\u2019s messaging app of spying on 14,000 users over a two-week period NSO Group, the maker of one the world\u2019s most sophisticated cyber weapons, has been ordered by a US court to hand its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp as part of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/court-orders-maker-of-pegasus-spyware-to-hand-over-code-to-whatsapp\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}