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Amazingly enough, the concept of hacking personal communications devices to explode was explored recently in the "phone strike" scene in Jackpot! , an Amazon MGM Studios movie released a month ago. https://x.com/obdmpod/status/1836087414290284588
Amir Tsarfati on Telegram: The updated numbers: 4000 wounded of which 400 in critical conditions Al Jazeera from a Lebanese security source: The pagers were brought to Lebanon 5 months ago. They were boobytrapped in advance. Each device contained an explosive weighing no more than 20 grams.
This almost reads like science fiction, what an incredible attack from a technical POV. A couple of thoughts: 1. The beepers were compromised and have been for a long time. I don't know how easy it is to exfiltrate data from them if they are receive-only devices. At any rate it shows that Israel is capable of intercepting and manipulating low-tech comms. What's left for Hezbollah to use? 2. The next step is to hack i…
> 1. The beepers were compromised and have been for a long time. Where did you see this? Sources are saying that Hezbollah recently upgraded their pagers with the American University of Beirut on August 29: https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1836082218805891360 Why would Israel have the ability to wipe out a good chunk of Hezbollah for years and just sat on it until now? They are claiming 2750 injuries: https://www.alja…
Amazingly enough, the concept of hacking personal communications devices to explode was explored recently in the "phone strike" scene in Jackpot! , an Amazon MGM Studios movie released a month ago. https://x.com/obdmpod/status/1836087414290284588
And Kingsman: The Secret Service from 2014.
Not sure why this was flagged, it's certainly a novel way of striking the enemy, regardless of the political undertones. Reuters seems to have a bit more details, and is probably a bit less biased than current URL (timesofisrael.com): https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-m...
Amazingly enough, the concept of hacking personal communications devices to explode was explored recently in the "phone strike" scene in Jackpot! , an Amazon MGM Studios movie released a month ago. https://x.com/obdmpod/status/1836087414290284588
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…
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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…