Malware maker urges judge to dump lawsuit over WhatsApp phone snooping
Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has rubbished Facebook's claim it can be sued in California because it allegedly uses American IT services and has a business presence in the US.
Last October, Facebook and its WhatsApp subsidiary sued the software developer and its affiliate Q Cyber Technologies in California, claiming that the firms made, distributed, and operated surveillance software known as Pegasus that remotely infects, hijacks, and extracts data from the smartphones of WhatsApp users.
NSO Group then filed a motion to dismiss the hacking lawsuit, arguing that it can't be sued in the US: it has immunity because its customers are governments. The social network last week spyware slinger facebook pretty funny suing california presence american services
