ICYMI (story broke late Friday evening): A judge has ordered NSO Group to stop targeting WhatsApp users. At the same time the judge reduced the damages the spyware maker had to pay to WhatsApp from $167 million to $4M, becasue there was no evidence NSO’s behavior was “particularly egregious."

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Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from ta...

SCOOP: ICE's Homeland Security Investigation signed a $3 million contract with Magnet Forensics, which makes phone hacking tech for law enforcement agencies that is "essential to mission of protecting national security & public." Magnet Forensics makes the phone unlocking system Graykey. We also found other recent contracts for the same technology for HSI in Charlotte and Detroit.

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ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech | TechCrunch

Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone-unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology u...