Yesterday, a significant incident occurred in Lebanon, where a multitude of explosive pagers simultaneously detonated, resulting in at least 9 fatalities and approximately 2,800 injuries. The genesis of this event harks back to the longstanding religiously armed Hezbollah group in Lebanon, entangled in a conflict with Israel. Recently, Hezbollah shifted to utilizing outdated communication devices known as “pager” to evade Israeli surveillance and interception.
Reports suggest that Hezbollah procured around 3,000 pagers from a Taiwanese company named Gold Apollo, deploying them about five months ago. The cause of this explosive outbreak remains ambiguous, although sources hint at Mossad, Israel’s clandestine intelligence unit, clandestinely planting explosives in the pagers during shipment from Taiwan. This orchestrated attack, if proven true, combines a supply chain physical assault with online device manipulation, reminiscent of historical instances like the NSA seeding malware into network devices en route to customers.
The Israeli government has refrained from commenting on this assault, which potentially epitomizes a fusion of a physical supply chain attack and online device subversion. Such attacks have occurred in the past, such as when the US and Western nations expressed fears about using Chinese network equipment for similar reasons.
TLDR: Multiple explosive pagers detonated in Lebanon, possibly orchestrated by Mossad through supply chain manipulations, underscoring the nexus between physical and online attacks.
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