Israeli government frustrated lawsuit that threatened to reveal secrets

The Guardian reports that the Israeli government took extraordinary steps in 2020 to frustrate WhatsApp's US lawsuit against NSO, which threatened to expose secrets about the Pegasus spyware. Leaked documents suggest Israeli officials seized NSO's internal files in July 2020 under a Tel Aviv court order that barred the company from transferring materials to any external person or entity without authorization. The Israeli Justice Ministry rejects the claim that it obstructed the US legal proceedings. WhatsApp's lawyers say NSO has produced only 17 internal documents of its own.