January 02, 2023
Appeals rulings that could decide the fate of data breach suits, a cloud-computing company's attempts to fend off negligence claims after suffering a massive ransomware attack, and questions over whether surveillance software breached anti-hacking laws lead Law360's list of cybersecurity cases to watch in 2023.
April 03, 2020
Controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group is claiming Facebook tried to monitor some of its own users by buying the same software the social media giant accuses NSO of later using to hack into WhatsApp users' phones, the latest twist in what has become an ugly legal battle.
March 10, 2020
Tensions flared Monday in Facebook's lawsuit in California federal court accusing an Israeli software firm of hacking WhatsApp users' phones, as the tech giant accused NSO Group of "procedural gamesmanship" and NSO sought sanctions against Facebook's lawyers.
March 09, 2020
The Israeli surveillance software company NSO Group says it should be immune from Facebook's lawsuit accusing it of hacking into the phones of 1,400 WhatsApp users, including human rights attorneys and political dissidents, because its clients are exclusively foreign nation-states combating "serious crimes."
March 03, 2020
A California federal court has ordered a default judgment against Israeli spy software vendor NSO Group Technologies Ltd., which Facebook says has refused for months to answer claims that it violated anti-hacking law by infiltrating the phones of about 1,400 WhatsApp users.
November 08, 2019
Facebook's new suit accusing an Israeli spyware company of compromising the phones of WhatsApp users includes a novel argument under federal anti-hacking law and presents a new wrinkle in the debate over government access to encrypted messages.
October 29, 2019
Facebook sued the Israeli cybersurveillance firm NSO Group in California federal court on Tuesday, claiming that the company used malware to infiltrate the messaging platform WhatsApp and spy on attorneys, political dissidents and human rights activists.