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NSO CEO faces tough examination in US court from WhatsApp over Pegasus software

By Mike Swift ( May 2, 2025, 00:12 GMT | Insight) -- Yaron Shohat, the chief executive of NSO Group Technologies, took the witness stand in the Israeli firm's damages trial against WhatsApp to testify that "we never intended to cause any harm" to the unit of Meta Platforms. But Shohat was forced to weather a tough cross-examination from WhatsApp's lawyers, who pushed him to answer whether NSO's "Pegasus" surveillance software had hurt surveillance targets around the world. NSO Group Technologies is not a “hacking company,” does not build spyware, and never intended to harm WhatsApp by using the global messaging app as a covert delivery system for its Pegasus surveillance software, NSO’s chief executive told a federal jury today....

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