Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Post by rendang » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 6:16 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #449

mmastrac wrote: post #365

That's an impressive supply-chain hack. Spend years showing how insecure modern telecom devices are and scare your enemy into going old-school, receive-only. Set up a shell company to sell pagers to your enemy's shell company. Give them devices implanted with a small explosive charge pointed inward, knowing they will be worn around the waist most of the time. Hack the backend server, send a coordinated page to all th…

> You have to hand it to them Given the context and peculiar choice of words, this reminds me of a classic @dril tweet https://x.com/dril/status/831805955402776576?s=46

Post by wing-_-nuts » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 6:16 PM UTC

megous wrote: post #358

sbeam wrote: post #179

If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it. It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting. I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously, or if the ones responsible had similar devices, and managed reverse engineer them and craft a payload to them, that could be sent…

If it's basically a remotely controlled IED via a public communication network, then there's nothing technically interesting about that, really. But the aspect of some supposedly civilized state staging a mass terror attack via a remotely controlled IEDs, putting suddenly thousands of people, many of them civilians (yes, Hezballah are also civilians, because they're a major political party in Lebanon) into hospital,…

Post by kazinator » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

Post by epolanski » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 6:23 PM UTC

NelsonMinar wrote: post #355

sbeam wrote: post #179

If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it. It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting. I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously, or if the ones responsible had similar devices, and managed reverse engineer them and craft a payload to them, that could be sent…

I wonder what Israel did to ensure that only legitimate targets were harmed by the sabotaged pagers.

Post by bewaretheirs » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 6:24 PM UTC

campuscodi wrote: post #430

Looks like a hardware supply chain attack: https://goachronicle.com/hezbollah-members-pagers-exploded-i... >>GoaChronicle through its intelligence network has learned that Israeli intelligence successfully intercepted a shipment of pager batteries that had been ordered from B&H Photo. The order was placed from Lebanon. Acting on a confirmed tip, the intelligence agency seized the shipment and covertly modified the ba…