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Pagerocalypse in Lebanon is the product of Hezbollah’s logistical and security failure - analyst (Part 1 Part 2) A wave of pager explosions in Lebanon this week, which has already been attributed to the Israeli intelligence, was “a more conventional act of warfare” rather than a terrorist attack, says veteran independent cybersecurity expert Lars Hilse who points out that “we don’t know anything about the actor yet.” “This was a supply chain interception where the devices in question were obviously or allegedly intercepted,“ he explains. “The circuit boards were modified to contain, obviously, a rather small amount of explosive, which then was detonated allegedly by a radio signal, whichever way, shape or form. So essentially what we’re talking about is a cyber-physical attack more than anything else, where, by definition, you use cyber instruments to cause physical damage, which this, at the end of the day, was.” According to Hilse, booby trapping a large number of pagers this wa... Source: Geopolitics Live
