Software developers aren't nation states, antisocial giant points out
Attorneys for Facebook and its WhatsApp subsidiary have challenged a plea from spyware maker NSO Group to dismiss the high-level hacking case the two are fighting out, arguing it has immunity from prosecution.
Facebook sued the Israel-based NSO Group and its affiliate Q Cyber Technologies last October in the US, alleging the firms "manufactured, distributed, and operated surveillance software, also known as 'spyware,' designed to intercept and extract information and communications from mobile phones and devices of WhatsApp users."
Facebook claims that NSO Group used its Pegasus spyware to hack about 1,400 phones and devices of WhatsApp users, including those of attorneys, journalists, human rights activists, and government officials.
NSO Group is also
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