NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents
Newly unsealed documents brought by a WhatsApp lawsuit shows NSO Group's spyware, Pegasus, was used to hack as many as "tens of thousands” of devices.
On Thursday, WhatsApp scored a legal victory by convincing a U.S. federal judge to publicly release three court documents that include new revelations about the inner workings of Pegasus, the spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech maker NSO Group.
The newly unsealed documents include information coming from depositions of NSO employees during the legal proceedings, internal company documents, as well as — ironically — WhatsApp messages exchanged between NSO employees, which WhatsApp obtained by sending subpoenas to NSO.
At first I use to ask myself why anyone would hack a system to get information but when I see the how much data is becoming important in our times I know anyone would do anything to get their hand on some secret data
Information was always valuable. That is the heart of corporate or government espionage. People were always trying to steal each other's secrets.
So let me ask, now that AI generates mass data for self training, will people be stealing this data 🤔 and who are they going to sell that too?
Which data do you think is more valuable, quality Human data or quality AI regenerated data
What data are you referring to? The data on Hive is public, anyone can use it simply by setting up an API.
Human data is the most beneficial but humans interacting with synthetic data is helpful also. The value of synthetic data, long term, is hotly debated. Nobody knows if it degrades as it is fed through repeatedly into model training.
That is why I tell people to interact with what is posted, even if synthetic. The responses how to generate context.
The documents also reveal that NSO disconnected 10 government customers in recent years from accessing the Pegasus spyware, citing abuse of its service.
This release of new revelations is the latest development in the lawsuit that WhatsApp filed in 2019, accusing NSO of violating the anti-hacking law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and breaching WhatsApp’s terms of service, by accessing WhatsApp servers and targeting individual users with spyware sent over the chat app. The accusations are based on a series of cyberattacks against WhatsApp users, including journalists, dissidents, and human rights advocates.
“The evidence unveiled shows exactly how NSO’s operations violated U.S. law and launched their cyber-attacks against journalists, human rights activists and civil society,” WhatsApp spokesperson Zade Alsawah said in a statement sent to TechCrunch. “We are going to continue working to hold NSO accountable and protect our users.”
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