Here’s why Facebook is suing the NSO Group over the WhatsApp hack

Facebook has filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against the Israeli hacker collective, the NSO Group.The social networking giant claims that the group used Pegasus, their flagship malware, to bug 1,400 users.NSO has not admitted to the act and plans to fight ‘vigorously’.Facebook is not going to let bygones be bygones. It’s suing the Israeli hacker collective, the NSO Group, for breaking past WhatsApp’s encryption to target at least 1,400 users with spyware.Everything sent on WhatsApp is meant to be encrypted. That means messages are only visible to users that are participating in the conversation and no one in between, including WhatsApp itself.But in May this year, the NSO Group was able to get through. It didn’t target the encryption directly. Instead, it used a bug within WhatsApp’s

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