Judge Tosses Journalists’ Pegasus Spyware Suit For Lack Of Personal Jurisdiction

( October 7, 2026, 11:05 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction a suit alleging that Israeli-based NSO Group Technologies Limited and Q Cyber Technologies Limited used their software product, Pegasus, to hack into journalists’ smartphones, finding that the plaintiffs failed to “establish that defendants purposefully directed any tortious act to California.”...