April 10, 2025
A California federal judge on Thursday nailed down details of an April 28 jury trial to determine the amount of damages Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, refusing to seal the proceedings and expressing frustration at the amount of discovery withheld by the parties, particularly NSO.
December 20, 2024
Israeli spyware maker NSO Group is liable for hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, a California federal judge ruled Friday when granting WhatsApp's bid for a partial summary judgment win, leaving damages as the only issue to be probed during trial.
November 07, 2024
A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to sanctioning NSO Group in WhatsApp's lawsuit accusing the Israeli spyware maker of hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' phones, telling NSO's counsel it's insufficient for NSO to have only produced computer code in Israel, and she views its defense as "pure gamesmanship."
November 16, 2023
A California federal judge has denied Israeli spyware maker NSO Group's latest bid to ax a long-running suit accusing it of hacking into the phones of 1,400 WhatsApp users, finding that potential roadblocks in retrieving relevant evidence from Israel weren't enough to stop the litigation from proceeding in the U.S.
September 30, 2020
A California federal judge granted NSO Group's bid to pause a suit accusing it of using malware to infiltrate the messaging platform WhatsApp to spy on users, rejecting Facebook Inc.'s request to compel discovery amid the Israeli spyware company's appeal to the Ninth Circuit of a prior order dismissing its sovereign immunity claim.
August 20, 2020
Israeli spyware company NSO Group can't press pause on a suit accusing it of hacking WhatsApp users' phones just because it decided to appeal its failed motion to dismiss, Facebook told the California federal judge overseeing the case.
July 24, 2020
From two cases that could define the scope of a hotly debated computer crimes law to a U.S. Supreme Court dispute set to rattle the landscape of federal robocall and text message litigation, the second half of 2020 should be busy in the world of cybersecurity and privacy law. Here are five cases worth watching.
July 17, 2020
A California federal court has declined to dismiss allegations that Israeli spyware company NSO hacked WhatsApp's users' phones, signing off on what legal observers had called a novel theory of liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
June 25, 2020
NSO Group has urged a California federal judge to deny Facebook-owned WhatsApp's bid to permanently bar the Israeli spyware company from using or "interfering" with the social media platforms, as the messaging app accuses NSO Group of hacking its users.
June 17, 2020
A California federal court has denied WhatsApp's bid to block King & Spalding LLP from defending spyware company NSO Group from allegations of hacking WhatsApp users' phones, finding that the BigLaw giant's prior work for WhatsApp is not a conflict of interest.