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Paging Hezbollah ...

Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
From the NYT ...


Hezbollah said wireless devices belonging to its members had exploded, and the health minister said more than 2,700 people had been injured. Hezbollah blamed Israel, but the Israeli military declined to comment. ...​

Why?

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Senior members of Hezbollah have used pagers for years but the practice became more widespread after the Oct. 7 attacks, when the group’s leader warned members that Israeli intelligence had penetrated the cellphone network, security experts said Tuesday.​
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As a result, thousands of rank-and-file members of Hezbollah — and not just fighters — switched to a new system of wireless paging devices, said Amer Al Sabaileh, a regional security expert and university professor based in Amman, Jordan. He said his information was based on extensive contacts in Lebanese political and security circles.​

Note also ...

Electronic pager devices also exploded in Syria, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency and to Saberin News, an outlet affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards. Saberin reported that seven people were killed in Syria from the blast targeting their devices in the Seyedah Zeinab neighborhood, a Shia stronghold in Damascus.​
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Sky News adds ...


We can reasonably assume that those carrying pagers would have been fairly senior within the group. That is supported by reports Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon was also injured when his pager exploded.​
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
This appears to be a broadly distributed attack.
I've not found info about the kill ratio of terrorists
to innocents.
 
beenherebeforeagain

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
From CNN

How was this pulled off? Here are the theories​

From CNN's Christian Edwards
Experts have shared two competing theories as to how hundreds of pagers could have exploded simultaneously.

One theory is that there was a cybersecurity breach, causing the pagers’ lithium batteries to overheat and detonate.

Another is that this was a “supply chain attack,” where the pagers were tampered with during the manufacturing and shipping process.

David Kennedy, a former US National Security Agency intelligence analyst, told CNN that the explosions seen in videos shared online appear to be “too large for this to be a remote and direct hack that would overload the pager and cause a lithium battery explosion.”

Kennedy said he found the second theory to be more plausible.

“It’s more likely that Israel had human operatives… in Hezbollah… The pagers would have been implanted with explosives and likely only to detonate when a certain message was received,” he said.

“The complexity needed to pull this off is incredible. It would have required many different intelligence components and execution. Human intelligence (HUMINT) would be the main method used to pull this off, along with intercepting the supply chain in order to make modifications to the pagers,” he added.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Jayhawker Soule said:
:facepalm:
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Whatever. Wouldn't be the first time tampered devices have been used to attack large groups of people.
anna. said:
Infected with some kind of software code that overheated the battery?

Edit: just saw your above.
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Nah. It's most likely they had explosives added before they were distributed. Probably by Israel with the help of someone shipping them who is friendly so they could intercept the shipment, add whatever they used, and get the pagers distributed without anyone else knowing about it.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Shadow Wolf said:
Had a bomb and some whatever signal receiver to make the explosives when whoever pushed the button.
The tricky part would have been getting them to use these booby trapped pagers.
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Were they booby trapped, or was there
a vulnerability to cause them to quickly
& massively over-heat?
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
RestlessSoul said:
Proper James Bond ****
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Not creative enough. "Supply chain attacks" occasionally happen, in regards to technology at least since the 80s. Several years ago some mobsters were even taken down when an undercover agent convinced them to used certain phones that had a special app that, although promised to be very secure and private, made it very easy for investigators to get into and retrieve messages. Not bombs this example, but it goes to show it's a sneaky way to attack someone and it happens.
 
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