Law Professors Weigh In on NSO Spyware Jurisdiction Dispute

NSO Group Technologies Ltd.'s attempt to escape the jurisdiction of the California federal court presiding over a challenge to the use of its spyware technology against journalists has drawn a rebuttal from a group of US law professors.

The lawsuit was filed by 18 El Salvador-based journalists alleging their cell phones were attacked by a spyware program deployed by NSO and by another technology company, Q Cyber Technologies Ltd.

NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware technology, which covertly extracts information from mobile phones, has been at the center of extensive litigation and regulatory activity in the US and the EU over allegations ...