The Israeli tech company NSO Group Technologies, which was ordered to pay WhatsApp just over 167 million US dollars in damages at the beginning of May, wants the penalty imposed to be reduced or ...

Even though WhatsApp has strong privacy and security features, it isn’t impenetrable – as Israel has previously shown.

In May, a jury ruled that spyware maker NSO Group must pay $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for a 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,400 people. Calling the damages ruling ...

Iranian officials had warned people to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other "location-based applications," according to a ...

While we’ve seen no public instances of governments having a backdoor into WhatsApp, in May, the Israeli cyber-intelligence ...

Spyware such as Pegasus from the NSO Group is increasingly becoming a political problem. This was one of the findings of the ...

The US House of Representatives has banned the use of WhatsApp on government-issued devices for congressional staffers.

In 2022, WhatsApp and Google Play were banned by the Iranian government during nationwide protests after the death of 22-year ...

U.S. House’s Chief Administrative Office has banned WhatsApp on the government devices of congressional staffers.