Meta, which owns WhatsApp, became the first company to sue and win against NSO Group, the maker of the notorious Pegasus spyware, when a U.S. ruled in December that the vendor hacked into 1,400 mobile devices in 2019. A jury ordered NSO Group to pay Meta and WhatsApp almost $168 million.

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