Italy’s government said on Wednesday that seven mobile phone users in the country had been targeted by spyware on Meta Platforms’ (META.O), opens new tab WhatsApp messaging service, and it called the incident “particularly serious”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office said it asked the National Cybersecurity Agency to look into the affair, while denying any involvement, after…
The penalty adds to a series of GDPR fines against Meta, bringing the total to $3 billion. Meta has been fined $263.5 million (€251 million) by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for a 2018 Facebook security breach that exposed the sensitive data of 29 million users globally. The breach exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s “view…
A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other remote access trojans to Meta as part of the social media giant’s on-going litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October 2019 for using its infrastructure to distribute the spyware to approximately…
