Amnesty International have filed a lawsuit in an Israeli court following the WhatsApp security breach earlier this week, accusing intelligence firm NSO Group of failing to show due diligence in the export of their spyware softwareAmnesty International have filed a lawsuit in Israel which says its staff may be under surveillance since the WhatsApp hacking scandal. Amnesty are also petitioning the Israeli government for revocation of the NSO Group's export license - the cyber intelligence firm whose software WhatsApp said was behind the breach. Facebook-owned messenger app, WhatsApp, said on Tuesday the security breach may have targeted human rights groups and that the sophisticated spyware deployed - known as Pegasus - was developed by NSO. Amnesty's affidavit at the Israeli court said: 'Staff of Amnesty International have an ongoing and well-founded fear they may continue to be targeted and ultimately surveilled.' British investor and philanthropist Stephen Peel, whose company Novalpina owns a controlling stake in NSO, co-singed a letter to Amnesty on Wednesday.

Source: Daily Mail May 18, 2019 07:50 UTC