Facebook sued Israeli firm NSO Group for hacking WhatsApp messages of journalists and human rights workers by rachsandl
: Facebook on Tuesday sued Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group for creating software tools that were allegedly used by its clients, including authoritarian regimes, to read the WhatsApp messages of journalists and human rights workers.
Attorneys, journalists, human rights activists, political dissidents, diplomats and other senior foreign government officials were targeted, WhatsApp-owner Facebook said in the lawsuit.reported last year that the Saudi Arabian regime used it to spy on dissidents, including those in contact withResearch groups have also found that the governments of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Mexico used Pegasus too. And the lawsuit says that WhatsApp users in those countries were among those hacked.
NSO Group also said that it takes any action after it detects misuse. But it was only in September—after public criticism that Pegasus lets authoritarian governments spy on dissidents—that NSO Group: Although WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, which means that outside hackers can’t intercept messages during their transmission, NSO Group used a sophisticated tools to access messages after they had already been decrypted, the lawsuit says.
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