The case caps a six-year battle between the social media giant and the surveillance firm, casting an unusual amount of light on the spyware industry.

A trial team led by Greg Andres, Antonio Perez-Marques and Micah Block of Davis Polk & Wardwell convinced jurors that NSO Group, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, “engaged in malice, oppression or fraud” in violation of California’s anti-hacking law,

The Israeli electronic surveillance company NSO Group was ordered to pay $167 million in damages to WhatsApp and its parent company Meta, bringing a close to six years of litigation.