Spyware Maker NSO Group Counters Meta’s Bid For Court Sanctions

NSO Group Tech Ltd. fired back against Meta Platforms Inc.'s bid to convince a judge to punish the Israeli spyware maker for alleged discovery violations in a dispute over covert installations of surveillance software on WhatsApp users’s phones. .

“Plaintiffs’ request for terminating sanctions is ludicrous, NSO’s lawyers wrote in a Wednesday filing in the US District for Northern California court. “Plaintiffs are trying to manipulate the Court into ‘splitting the baby’” by granting a sanction they need to avoid dismissal.

NSO’s repeatedly dodged court orders and discovery obligations, invoking violations of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Meta alleged in ...