Facebook: NSO Group used U.S.-based servers in operations against WhatsApp users

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https://www.cyberscoop.com/nso-group-us-servers-whatsapp-lawsuit/

By Shannon Vavra
CYBERSCOOP
April 24, 2020

Lawyers for WhatsApp’s parent company alleged in documents filed Thursday that
NSO Group, the Israeli software surveillance firm accused of spying on over a
thousand WhatsApp users, has used U.S.-based servers to launch its attacks.

In court documents, Facebook-owned WhatsApp claims NSO Group used a server run
by Los Angeles-based hosting provider QuadraNet “more than 700 times during the
attack to direct NSO’s malware to WhatsApp user devices in April and May 2019.”

Additionally, NSO Group used a remote server hosted by Amazon to target WhatsApp
users, WhatsApp software engineer Claudiu Gheorghe said in the filing.

The filing is a blow to NSO Group’s claims that its signature product, Pegasus,
isn’t capable of running operations in the United States.

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