U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp
As part of the social media behemoth's ongoing legal battle with the Israeli spyware vendor, a U.S. judge has mandated that NSO Group provide Meta access to the source code for Pegasus and other products.
The ruling is a significant legal win for Meta, which brought the complaint in October 2019 after some 1,400 mobile devices were infected with spyware between April and May by accessing its infrastructure. Two dozen Indian journalists and activists were also included in this.
These attacks took advantage of a serious buffer overflow fault in the voice call capability of the instant messaging service (CVE-2019-3568, CVSS score: 9.8), which was a zero-day flaw at the time, to deliver Pegasus by just making a call, even in situations when the calls went unanswered read more U.S. Court...