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Facebook has stepped up its attack on Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. Last year, Facebook filed a lawsuit against the NSO Group alleging that the company had used a malware attack to infect the accounts of more than 1,000 WhatsApp users. Now Facebook has filed allegations that the company used US-based servers. USA To organize the attack against WhatsApp users.
According to a Cyberscoop report (via Engadget), the NSO Group used servers from Los Angeles-based hosting provider QuadraNet to mount an attack using its Pegasus software “more than 700 times” between April and May of last year . The social media giant also claimed that a remote Amazon server was also used last year in the attack on WhatsApp users.
In addition to that, Facebook’s lawyers also worked to reject the claim that the case should be dismissed due to jurisdictional technicalities and the company’s “defense of sovereign immunity”. The company’s legal team argued that the NSO group had been unable to identify a single government that used its surveillance technology. It had also failed to demonstrate any evidence, which would establish the company’s limited operational role.
“Defendants blame unidentified [governments]… “That argument fails at every step: Defendants cannot hide with the immunity of their alleged clients; they are responsible for the lawsuit in a California court. NSO is neither sovereign nor immune to the exercise of court jurisdiction. “reads the presentation.
The NSO Group, on the other hand, did not comment on it. Instead, it reiterated its previous claim that it did not offer its Pegasus software to customers. “The NSO Group does not operate the Pegasus software for its customers …,” the company said in a statement.
Facebook filed a lawsuit against the NSO Group in San Francisco last year alleging that the company had used malware to hack into 1,400 people’s smartphones and monitor them. The company claimed that the Israeli firm created WhatsApp accounts between January 2018 and May 2019 to send malicious code to specific devices.
At that time, the NSO Group rejected all the allegations and said it would fight them “vigorously.”
Eight employees later filed a lawsuit against Facebook in Tel Aviv demanding that Facebook unlock their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
The story took a new turn earlier this year when the NSO Group asked a judge to issue sanction orders against Facebook for failing to give the company adequate notice under the Hague Convention when it filed a lawsuit against it in October. from last year.
