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New court documents reveal new revelations about inner workings of Pegasus spyware made by NSO Group .
The Israeli surveillance tech maker developed a suite of hacking tools to be used against targets using WhatsApp , capable of accessing private data on the target’s phone.
The documents also reveal that NSO disconnected 10 government customers in recent years from accessing the spyware.
This release of new revelations is the latest development in the lawsuit that WhatsApp filed in 2019 .
Court documents show that NSO ’s Heaven exploit was active before 2018 , and was designed to direct target WhatsApp devices into communicating with a malicious WhatsApp relay server controlled by NSO .
After WhatsApp patched its systems against the Heaven exploit, NSO developed a new exploit called “Eden,” which “need[ed] to go through WhatsApp relay servers” The use of the Eden exploit led to WhatsApp filing its lawsuit against NSO , according to a deposition by another NSO employee.
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