NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents

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WhatsApp was able to defeat both NSO’s “Eden” and “Heaven” exploits with patches and security updates, according to an internal NSO communication.“Eden/Heaven/Hummingbird R.I.P.announcement,” read a message sent to NSO employees.

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.

One technique that NSO used to allow its customers to target WhatsApp users, described in one document, was to set up something the company called a “WhatsApp Installation Server,” or WIS which WhatsApp calls a “fake client.” This was essentially a modified version of the WhatsApp app that NSO developed and used to send messages — including their malicious exploits — to regular WhatsApp users.