Sophisticated attack on Hezbollah: Pagers likely booby-trapped with explosive charge during delivery
Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding some 2,800 in blasts the Iran-backed militant group blamed on Israel. As Iran-backed Hezbollah vows retaliation, FRANCE 24’s Rawad Taha reports from Beirut and FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney is joined by Gérôme Billois, cyber-security expert and Partner at international management consultancy firm Wavestone. He says that the pagers are likely to have been intercepted during delivery and booby-trapped by adding an explosive charge.
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25 comments
Not one person helped the guy in the market. Nice
Fafo.
beautifull if u ask me cause yeah u a middle guy but what u do hurts
So nobody will call this a terrorist attack
This could not be more funny.
Wow, what an information trove.. identities, contacts, families etc are now known and can be exploited.
And how long did it take to carefully open hundreds of packages, put in the boom stuff, then reseal the package to make it look like it was never tampered with?
lol
Brilliant
Israel intercepted Hezbollah’s pager order, then ordered the same devices to install detonation, then infiltrated the delivery by replacing their own pager for delivery. Clever and effective by Israel. But they will be due for reprisal.
Genius
How do you know they are Hezbollah? People buy and sell these things.
This is one of the greatest pieces of spycraft in the history of the world. Bravo! 👏
NCIS couldnt do anything, even ! Damn ! KInda Order 66 meets Jason Bourne !
From the Rivers to the Sea, No fingers for thee!
🤷🏽♂️Who could have done this!? 😂Batteries!? Seriously… War is terrible. The suffering… the loss of human life… It's heartbreaking. 😁That's why supply chain logistics are so crucial to a fighting force on the go! I have some software that…
The blind leading the blind. Another consequence of Old Testament thinking.
They bought them from a guy called Fang Bao Rozenberg
0:50 Kingsman attack
Were Squad members of U.S. Congress grieniously injured?
Don't buy pagers from Temu.
Nobody here is talking about the most likely cause of the pagers blowing up. It seems to me that they all just spontaneously, blew up at the same time as a pure coincidence. That’s the only explanation I can think of. Lol.
lmao.
Oh no, what a pity, never mind.
The only logical answer is that they intercepted these pagers at the provisioning stage… Those who work in cellular or Telco will know that that is the time at which a local distributor takes hardware, connect it to a network and assigns it to an individual… this is usually done at the local network level, or a dealer or reseller… I imagine it would be quite easy for the Israelis to somehow infiltrate either the dealer network, the network itself or the logistics network… I think the reassuring part of this whole story is that the device needs to be physically tampered with and an explosive inserted in order for this to happen otherwise we are all carrying software bombs in our pockets… Which would be very scary.