<ul><li>A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages for a case against NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability.</li><li>WhatsApp also received $444 million in compensatory damages from NSO.</li><li>NSO targeted 1,400 mobile phones of attorneys, journalists, activists, and others using the Pegasus spyware through a critical WhatsApp vulnerability.</li><li>The exploit worked by making a call to the target's app without requiring the call to be answered for infection.</li></ul>

Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users

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