Israel's NSO Group has been ordered to pay over $167 million in damages to Meta over 2019 WhatsApp spyware campaign.

The Mark Zuckerberg company stated that six years back its engineers discovered Pegasus targeting users, including human rights activists, intellectuals, and journalists. The company claims it thwarted NSO-bred spyware’s vector attack in 2019. Meta also worked with Citizen Lab in the case. However,

A jury ordered huge punitive damages against NSO, the Israel-based maker of spyware already banned from use in the U.S.