The US Supreme Court docket has denied a petition to dam WhatsApp from suing NSO Group for damages attributable to malicious Pegasus adware installations.
WhatsApp claims the Israel-based NSO Group focused 1,400 WhatsApp customers in April and Might of 2019 with Pegasus adware, committing fraud in opposition to the corporate and bogging down the platform’s servers.
The Supreme Court docket ruling means WhatsApp can proceed with its litigation.
“NSO’s adware has enabled cyberattacks focusing on human rights activists, journalists, and authorities officers,” Meta mentioned in a press release following the ruling. “We firmly imagine that their operations violate US legislation and so they have to be held to account for his or her illegal operations.”
