A US judge bars NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users and cuts the ~$168M damages verdict awarded to Meta by a jury in May to $4M, ruling it was excessive
Meta previously won $168 million in damages over claims spyware compromised WhatsApp users, but a judge reduced the damages down to $4 million.
Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware
$2M Top Payout Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Apple Doubles Security Bounty Rewards to $2 Million Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Apple now offers $2 million for zero-click RCE vulnerabilities Ti...
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on 1,400+ WhatsApp users' phones
Although NSO Group will likely appeal, the jury's award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the notorious spyware vendor.
Docs: NSO Group, which is still on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, has hired Vogel Group, a lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration
www.wired.com/story/nso-gr... Vas Panagiotopoulos / @vaspanagiotopoulos.com : 1/5 NSO Group is paving a path back Into Trump's 🇺🇸America. — The 🇮🇱Israeli #spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Dep...
Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8
FBI Investigation Underway, China Suspected Huileng Tan / Business Insider : The US Treasury says some computers were breached by China-backed hackers United States Department of the Treasury : Dear C...
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO
Israel-based maker of Pegasus program loses five-year-old landmark case. — Messaging giant WhatsApp won a landmark ruling Friday …
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group
«Russian government hackers found using #exploits made by spyware companies NSO and Intellexa: … Frederic Jacobs / @fj@mastodon.social : “Our latest n-day exploit reporting shows that in an attack on ...
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group
Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” …
A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to Meta, as part of Meta's ongoing litigation to protect WhatsApp
Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta's messaging app of spying on 1,400 users over a two-week period
Citizen Lab: in 2022, NSO Group deployed at least three new zero-click hacks against iPhones with iOS 15 and early versions of iOS 16; Apple fixed the flaws
This was an experiment by #apple around #iOS, without guarantees it would do anything. — But it did. — Concerned about security? … John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton@mastodon.social : 3/ Some details...