NSO Group could be exposed to liability from other technology groups for exploiting their platforms’ vulnerabilities

The Israeli firm behind the Pegasus spyware has been ordered to pay WhatsApp $167m (£125m) for hacking 1,400 people in 2019. Pegasus is malicious software which can be installed remotely on mobile phones to access, among other things, people's microphones and cameras.

A trial team led by Greg Andres, Antonio Perez-Marques and Micah Block of Davis Polk & Wardwell convinced jurors that NSO Group, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, “engaged in malice, oppression or fraud” in violation of California’s anti-hacking law,