Meta Accuses NSO of Violating WhatsApp Court Injunction – Security Affairs

Meta says NSO violated a court injunction by targeting WhatsApp users again through phishing campaigns and test accounts. Last year, WhatsApp won a landmark case against NSO Group, the Israeli spyware vendor behind Pegasus, and secured a permanent court injunction barring the company from ever targeting WhatsApp or its users again. The court was unambiguous: NSO had violated US federal and state hacking laws. That should have been the end of it. It wasn’t. Meta investigated user reports and detected new targeting attempts linked to NSO, which were disrupted by the company. “We successfully disrupted NSO-linked social engineering attempts, after investigating user reports. They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites outside of WhatsApp, similar to previously reported 1-click phishing campaigns linked to NSO.” reads the Meta’s announcement.”We also caught them creating test accounts and groups on WhatsApp, which we took down.” The attempts weren’t subtle: classic spear phishing, luring targets away from the encrypted environment into attacker-controlled territory outside the app’s protections. Meta also caught NSO creating test accounts and groups on WhatsApp, which it took down. The company is now filing a federal court contempt motion against NSO for violating
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