Article 4TCDS WhatsApp sues Israeli firm, accusing it of hacking activists' phones

WhatsApp sues Israeli firm, accusing it of hacking activists' phones

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Nick Hopkins and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
from Technology | The Guardian on (#4TCDS)

NSO Group's spyware allegedly used in cyber-attacks on lawyers and journalists

WhatsApp has launched an unprecedented lawsuit against a cyber weapons firm which it has accused of being behind secret attacks on more than 100 human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, and academics in just two weeks earlier this year.

The social media firm is suing NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company, saying it is responsible for a series of highly sophisticated cyber-attacks which it claims violated American law in an "unmistakeable pattern of abuse".

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