Meta won its case in December after a ruling that the spyware company used Pegasus to target "over a thousand" WhatsApp users.

An eight-person jury granted Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages to cover the costs of addressing the breach, plus an additional $167.25 million in punitive damages intended to discourage similar future actions by NSO, according to a court filing with the US District Court for the Northn District of California.

The NSO Group has been ordered to pay Meta millions after a jury ruled it illegally used its Pegasus spyware to infiltrate WhatsApp and spy