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Meta suit against Israel's NSO offered rare insight into world of cyberespionage

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NSO Group was handed a $168 million penalty by a federal jury in California on Tuesday for hijacking the servers of WhatsApp in order to hack users of the Meta -owned chat platform.

The case caps a six-year battle between the American social media giant and the surveillance firm.

NSO charged its European government customers a "standard price" of $7 million for use of its platform to hack 15 different devices at a time.

The Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation collectively paid NSO $7.6 million .

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