"NSO Group argues WhatsApp injunction threatens existence, future U.S. government work" 20 November 2025

NSO Group argued in a court filing this week that the court should pause the permanent injunction preventing it from targeting WhatsApp with its spyware while the company appeals the decision. According to the company, enforcing the injunction would cause irreparable harm to its business and prevent the U.S. government from using its products...

...NSO Group repeated its claim that the Northern District Court of California’s decisions  could effectively shut down the company, which makes Pegasus spyware. “NSO will suffer irreparable, potentially existential injuries if the injunction is not stayed,” it says.

But the company dived further into its reasoning. The injunction, it argues, requires the defendants to destroy code that accesses or uses the WhatsApp platform.

“The deletion and destruction of computer code and technologies cannot be undone or remedied by money damages — once these are gone, they are gone,” the NSO Group motion contends. “And the injunction prohibits NSO from engaging in entirely lawful conduct to develop, license, and sell products used in authorized government investigations — a prohibition that would devastate NSO’s business and could well force it out of business entirely.”..