#explodingpagers — Public Fediverse posts

Bellingcat digs into mystery profile of the company that imported the exploding pagers into Lebanon. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/09/20/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-exploding-pagers/?utm_source=mastodon #Lebanon #pagers #explodingpagers

NPR: Did exploding pagers attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon violate international law? https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23812/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-international-law #explodingpagers #explodingradios #icom #lebanon #law

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> The president of Gold Apollo, Hsu Ching-Kuang, told the press that a year after signing their partnership, BAC made the unusual request to design its own products but with Gold Apollo’s trademark. According to Hsu, payments to Gold Apollo from BAC reportedly came from a bank account registered to an unnamed country in the Middle East, causing occasional delays and freezes in payment, despite BAC being based in Hungary, an arrangement he called “strange.”
#ExplodingPagers #GoldApollo

Hmm, I definitely *do* have that model of Icom (IMHO, disconnecting the battery from the radio will not render said items safe -- the batteries/devices in this attack look to have been compromised and loaded with explosives... so you're still holding a bomb in this example) -- that said, the Icoms that exploded are the Icom IC-V82 -- newer model, widely counterfeited. #explodingicoms #lebanon #explodingpagers

https://gizmodo.com/walkie-talkies-explode-in-lebanon-as-part-of-a-second-wave-of-attacks-2000500325

> “Everyone's scared to send text messages, to make calls, and they're afraid to open laptops. It's definitely led to some level of complete disorientation, fear, confusion, paranoia. It has huge psychological effects,” said Amal Saad... https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-pager-attack
#JeremyScahill #AmalSaad #LebanonWar #TerrorismWarfare
#ExplodingPagers #ポケベル爆発
#IsraelTaiwan 🧵

@ai6yr https://flipboard.com/video/aljazeera/913a352eda #explodingpagers

@ai6yr https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248214/lebanon-hezbollah-exploding-radio-attacks #explodinght #explodingpagers

BBC: Exploding walkie-talkies kill 14 and injure at least 450 in new attacks across Lebanon https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t #icomv82 #explodingicoms #explodingpagers #Lebanon

NPR: Another wave of exploding communications devices https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s1-23577/pagers-devices-explode-hezbollah-lebanon-israel #Lebanon #ExplodingPagers #ExplodingRadios

(Update: The radios involves are the Icom IC-V82, which are the newer version of the IC-V8). I think this is an Icom IC-V8 VHF transceiver (or the UHF equivalent). Very common usage as they can be programmed with commercial/first responder/ham radio frequencies. Looks to me like the batteries were the attack vector; I guess they were supply chain compromised Lithium Ion + special Mossad trigger/explosives batteries. #explodingicoms #explodingradio #explodingpagers #war

Note to self: do not buy extra batteries for the handheld radios from random companies in Hungary. 😬 #explodingbatteries #explodingpagers

If you want to help the victims of the terrorist attacks in Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross is working pretty damn hard right now and could do with some support.

You can donate here:

https://www.supportlrc.app/donate/

#IsraelLebanonWar #Lebanon #ExplodingPagers

Oooh, an extreme case of "product/brand licensing issues"

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-09-18/exploding-pagers-lebanon-taiwan-gold-apollo #brandlicensing #explodingpagers

Who made the exploding pagers? A messy global trail emerges behind deadly Lebanon blasts
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taiwan-firm-denies-making-pagers-used-lebanon-explosions-rcna171594 #cybersecurity #explodingpagers #Lebanon #explosives #supplychain #attack

And before anyone cracks on about US/Israel/whoever doing it:

The Soviets dropped huge numbers of booby-trapped, exploding calculators, pens & dolls - yep - into Afghan civilian areas in the ‘80s.

Repeat after me:

This is not some mad new tech story.

This is a Hizbollah security lapse story.

#Cybersecurity #security #hizbollah #hezbollah #lebanon #explodingpagers #pagers #warfare #infosec #Cyberwar

I don't know what happend with the #hezbollah #explodingpagers pagers, but it would make sense for hezbolla to have remote self destruction mechanism for their pager.

I think it's more likely that it got activated by mistake, rather than a hostile attack.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hezbollah-pagers-expolsion-lebanon-handheld-devices-rcna171457

Does that mean it's possible to turn any smartphone into a bomb? Remotely?

F*CK what world are we living in?

I demand an investigation by european product safety authorities!!! Seriously how is Israel able to do this crazy shit?

https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/113153592634888490

#israel #hezbollah #pagerbombs #explodingpagers #productsafety #europeanunion

Does that mean it's possible to turn any smartphone into a bomb? Remotely?

F*CK what world are we living in?

#israel #hezbollah #pagerbombs #explodingpagers

I have to imagine current pagers use rechargeable Lithium Ion batteries, like current cell phones. This is a new threat vector.
#ExplodingPagers
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hezbollah-pagers-expolsion-lebanon-handheld-devices-rcna171457

More than 1,000 wounded by exploding pagers in Lebanon Note: *not* all Hezbollah -- lots of collateral damage :-(

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/

#israel #hezbollah #war #pagers #explodingpagers

BAHAAHAHAH #ExplodingPagers

Add "exploding pagers" to possible spycraft technology...

Al Jazeera: Dozens of Hezbollah members wounded after pagers explode in Lebanon

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/dozens-of-hezbollah-members-wounded-after-pagers-explode-in-lebanon

#explodingpagers