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11-06-2026
NEW YORK: Meta has said it is filing a federal US court contempt order against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users.
The company said on Monday that its WhatsApp messaging service disrupted new spear phishing attempts linked to NSO, an entity blacklisted by the United States government for engaging in activities that are contrary to national security or foreign policy interests.
These attempts were similar to previous “1-click phishing campaigns”, aimed to trick users into clicking malicious links and direct them to external websites, Meta said in a blogpost.
A “1-click” is a type of cyberattack where a single click on a malicious link or attachment is sufficient to compromise a victim’s device or account, without requiring them to enter their credentials.
Meta said WhatsApp took down test accounts and groups created by NSO on its platform. NSO did not immediately respond to a media request for comment.
Last year, a US court ordered NSO to stop targeting Meta’s WhatsApp, a development the spyware company warned could put it out of business.
While the ruling significantly reduced the punitive damages NSO owed Meta to $4m from an initial $167m, the injunction itself was seen as a substantial challenge for the company, which faces ongoing accusations of enabling human rights abuses through its Pegasus hacking tool.
Meta said on Monday that last month it was joined by 12 prominent civil rights organizations, a coalition of security researchers, privacy advocates and digital rights experts, who filed their amicus briefs to fight NSO’s appeal against the permanent injunction.
A group of former IDF intelligence and former NSO Group cyber experts has developed a variety of zero-click [no user intervention] weapons and other advanced tools for various Western intelligence agencies, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The Radiant Research Labs group is led by Tal Slomka and Zvika Moshkovitz. The launch of their new cyber offense firm comes as the playing field has moved 180 degrees from the Biden administration to the Trump administration, with Israeli cyber experts switching from suspects to prized leaders of new joint business-intelligence operations with Washington.
Slomka served in IDF intelligence both in the air force and in Unit 8200. Part of his service involved using technology to find and identify aerial threats. Subsequently, he worked for NSO as an analysis manager.
Moshkovitz served in IDF intelligence and in the Prime Minister’s Office (usually a nod to various intelligence agencies). Part of his service involved untangling the complex picture of targets and enemies in the MABAM (Campaign between Wars) in Syria and related areas. Next, he also worked in NSO in analysis and market development.
Slomka is the founder and CEO of Radiant, and Moshkovitz, his right-hand man, is head of marketing.
Radiant’s accelerated development
It took Radiant around six months from its May 2023 founding to produce its first unique zero-click cyber tool. Since then, it has developed around 10 major cyber and technological tools.
Much of what Radiant does remains secret, but radiant and Moshkovitz explained its role in cyber offense as parallel to making the engine for a car, as opposed to the car itself. Radiant provides the core for developing or employing certain cyber tools as opposed to the tool which will be deployed. (Int’l News Desk)
