NSO Group, an Israeli hacking and spyware firm, reportedly made a deal with the US government -- despite being blacklisted by the Biden administration. AP The White House was embarrassed last week ...

The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government has gotten the message.

A federal jury on Tuesday ordered the best-known maker of government spyware to pay a record-setting $167 million for hacking more than 1,000 people through WhatsApp messages in a stunning cap to ...

As it helps Israel find Hamas hostages in Gaza, NSO Group, which the U.S. put on a blacklist in 2021, intensified its lobbying push.

NSO Group's software targeted activists, journalists, politicians and executives. Apple's new Lockdown Mode is designed to thwart it. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Israeli spyware company NSO Group was ordered by a U.S. federal court on Tuesday to pay WhatsApp and its parent company Meta almost $170 million in damages after its cyber tools were used to hack ...

Israel's NSO Group was handed a $168 million penalty by a federal jury in California on Tuesday for hijacking the servers of WhatsApp in order to hack users of the Meta-owned chat platform on ...

The Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group was ordered on Tuesday to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, capping a six-year legal battle after NSO hacked 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to ...

NSO Group was fined $168 million for hacking WhatsApp users. NSO charged European governments millions of dollars for their spyware platform. The CIA and FBI paid NSO $7.6 million.

Spyware-maker NSO ordered to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp. The jury verdict hands a huge loss to the Israel-based company, already banned from use in the U.S., after a years-long legal fight.