Khashoggi’s Widow Appeals Dismissal of NSO Group Spying Suit

The widow of murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi appealed a decision by a Virginia federal court last month to dismiss a hacking lawsuit she filed against spyware maker NSO Group Technologies Ltd.

Hanan Elatr Khashoggi accused NSO Group of installing its Pegasus surveillance technology on two of her phones the year before her husband’s kidnapping and killing. Khashoggi alleged that NSO Group infected her devices with Pegasus spyware in April 2018, but the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that she didn’t establish residency in Virginia until months later. Because she didn’t establish that the ...