US court bars NSO Group from installing spyware on WhatsAppA US judge has banned Israeli spyware firm NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users. The court also reduced a large damages award to a small...
18 Oct, 2025, 02.06 PM IST
300 WhatsApp numbers of Indians were spied on: Randeep Surjewala responds to Pegasus verdict; Here's what it saidA US court ruled that NSO Group illegally used a WhatsApp vulnerability to install Pegasus spyware, rejecting NSO's immunity claim. The cas...
22 Dec, 2024, 10.23 AM IST
US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking in WhatsApp lawsuitA U.S. judge ruled against NSO Group in a lawsuit filed by WhatsApp, accusing the Israeli spyware firm of exploiting a bug to install surve...
21 Dec, 2024, 08.11 AM IST
What's Cognyte, the spyware Congress alleges the government is buyingCongress leader Pawan Khera claimed today that the Modi government is looking to acquire new spyware by spending Rs 986 crore of taxpayers'...
10 Apr, 2023, 08.13 PM IST
Apple and Android phones hacked by Italian spyware, Google saysMilan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, developed tools to spy on private messages and cont...
24 Jun, 2022, 07.20 AM IST
Senior EU officials were targeted with Israeli spywareAmong them was Didier Reynders, a senior Belgian statesman who has served as the European Justice Commissioner since 2019, according to one...
11 Apr, 2022, 01.55 PM IST
Examining privilege notice against IT Minister Vaishnaw, says Rajya Sabha Chairman NaiduLeaders of the Congress, TMC and CPI have moved privilege motions against Vaishnaw following a report in the New York Times claiming that t...
03 Feb, 2022, 11.22 AM IST
Modi govt has committed treason: Rahul Gandhi on NYT report on Pegasus"By tapping phones, they have targeted all including the ruling party, the opposition, the army, the judiciary. This is treason," Rahul Gan...
29 Jan, 2022, 12.40 PM IST
SC wants to know who used Pegasus; independent probe orderedThe team, to be headed by former Supreme Court judge RV Raveendran, will also suggest a mechanism through which a citizen can flag such ill...
28 Oct, 2021, 06.01 AM IST
SC orders comprehensive probe into Pegasus snooping rowThe verdict, penned by CJI N V Ramana, assumes significance since it declined the government's proposal to set up an inquiry on its own int...
27 Oct, 2021, 10.34 PM IST
Scandal-hit NSO backs international spyware rulesIn a letter to the United Nations, the NSO Group expressed "strong support for the creation of an international legal framework" to govern ...
05 Oct, 2021, 10.55 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee terms Pegasus spy scandal as worse than Watergate, exhorts people to protestThe West Bengal chief minister exhorted civil society, students, media-persons to rise in protest against the misuse of the spyware.
22 Jul, 2021, 07.53 PM IST
Parliamentary panel likely to question officials on Pegasus phone tapping allegations on July 28: SourcesThe 32-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology headed by Tharoor is scheduled to meet on July 28. The agenda ...
21 Jul, 2021, 05.03 PM IST
EU agrees on tighter rules for surveillance tech exportsEU lawmakers and the European Council reached a provisional deal to update controls of so-called dual use goods such as facial recognition ...
10 Nov, 2020, 10.22 AM IST
WhatsApp says alerted govt of spyware attack in September too; IT Min says past info was inadequateWhatsApp had said it is suing NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm, that is reportedly behind the technology that helped unnamed entitie...
03 Nov, 2019, 03.42 PM IST
Make in India: Centre to ensure Huawei makes it safe in IndiaThe security establishment is wary, given Modi government's emphasis on 'Make in India' is keen to do away with country-specific barriers.
14 Jun, 2015, 01.18 PM IST
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