NSO Group asks judge for new trial, calling $167 million in damages ‘outrageous’

In May, Jury decided to damage $ 167 million to WhatsApp of Spyware Maker NSOP For the 2019 hack campaign targeting more than 1400 people.

The NSO group “Openly illegal”, “obviously illegal”, “unconstitutional extreme”, the NSO group “dirt-constitutional”, wants to send a new amount of nucleus or to be tried to make a new judgment.

Thursday, company made an action for a new test or a “remittitur” with a procedure that allows the court to reduce excessive judgment.

The file was reported for the first time by law Legal and Mlex.

In the court document, the NSO Group’s lawyers said the Ugly Punishment Award has increased a large number of high scores in this case in this case. ” Lawyers should not violate the amount of $ 167 million in punitive damage, the jury does not violate the “4-fold compensation damage” of $ 444,719 in this situation.

Lawyers are illegal “It is illegal to bankrupt over the limited behavior of the jury’s prize in this case, except for the overhaul of the general hostility to the operation of the general hostility. “

Whatsapp spokesman Margarita Franklin, told Techcrunch in a statement that WhatsApp will fight.

“Over the past six years, NSO has tried to prevent accountability in every turn. This is an expected expected to claim a strong message from the Jury of the Jury of the NSO to the American company and its users,” Franklin said. “We will respond to court because we continue to take a permanent instruction against the NSO to prevent it spy software Strong to target our whatsapp and our users again. “

The NSO group, in his court, “The NSO is grossly overcoming” and “reflecting the desire to worsen the NSO’s punishment”, he said.

NSO group during the court Claimed to be in a financially difficult condition.