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I don’t make the pagers. I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong.”
In turn, BAC Consulting denied any involvement, with its CEO Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono telling NBC News This model is produced and sold by BAC,
We have examples where supply chains were compromised in very elaborate, long lasting, super sophisticated ways for espionage. We don’t have that many for actual attacks. This may be the first supply chain attack that actually really deserves to be called a supply chain attack,
said Thomas Rid, a Johns Hopkins University professor who studies the history of intelligence operations It was the intelligence coup of the century,
The report conclude ... the Post reported Supply chain compromises are tried and true in intelligence work,
said Harding, who is the director of the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies An iPhone was also blown up in Lebanon
a social media user wrote on X (formerly Twitter) sharing an image of a destroyed iPhone with more than 800.000 views Lebanon: Sabotaged solar panels have started significant electrical fires. Over 500 individuals have been reported injured so far
this user wrote featuring an Israeli flag I have never seen such terrible things in my life,
a doctor in a Beirut hospital told AFP The shock, the disarray, the trauma is reminiscent of Beirut after the port explosion. Only this time it was not limited to a city but spread across the country,
she said in a social media post I saw horrific things that day,
said Mohammad al-Mousawi, who was running an errand in Beirut's southern suburb, where Hezbollah has a strong presence, when the pagers began blowing up One more horror shaping our collective existence,
wrote Maha Yahya, the Beirut-based director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre If we are going to die, we'll die. We are already dying. We are already dead,
Most modern smartphones are constructed in ways that such tampering could be anywhere from very difficult to nearly impossible.
Dr Lukasz Olejnik, visiting senior research fellow of Department of War Studies of King's College, confirmed to MailOnline There are real risks of copycat actions
Philip Ingram, a former senior British military intelligence officer and security expert, told iNews When you open up a smartphone, I think the only way to get any sort of meaningful amount of high explosive in there would be to do something like replace one of the components... (but that) would compromise its functionality.
Alan Woodward, the University of Surrey's professor of cybersecurity, told WIRED That means there's space in there
As air bubbles escaping from the prototype rose to the surface, he barked With regard to Lebanon, the United States did not know about nor was it involved in these incidents. We're still gathering the information, gathering the facts."
He said during a news conference with Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty Congress needs a full accounting of the attack, including an answer from the State Department as to whether any US assistance went into the development or deployment of this technology."
The company will deliver over 22,000 two way radios to specific Ranger, Airborne, Air Assault, Light Infantry and Mechanised Infantry units for operation during battle situations in which clear communication is paramount,
They will face a severe reckoning,
Nasrallah stated ... emphasizing the unprecedented damage inflicted on both Lebanon and Hezbollah