In December 2024, a judge ruled that NSO is liable, and in May 2025 a jury ordered the spyware maker to pay more than $444,000 in compensatory damages and $167 million in punitive damages, which NSO appealed.

In October 2025, a judge reduced the punitive damages to $4 million, but WhatsApp was granted a permanent injunction barring NSO from hacking its users.

lol

NSO has been seeking to overturn the order blocking it from targeting WhatsApp users, arguing that the company will “suffer irreparable harm”.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Illegal hacking company no longer allowed to illegal hack. "If we not allowed illegal hack whatsapp then what we supposed do at work?". Dipshit.

Maybe first time i hope meta win in court.

In addition, WhatsApp said on Monday that it’s making a “significant contribution” to the Spyware Accountability Initiative, a fund supporting work aimed at exposing, challenging, and stopping the abuse of spyware technology.

"abuse of spyware technology"? Is there any use that is not abuse?