Israeli experts have warned of the danger of surveillance cameras that may provide a treasure of intelligence information that Iran exploits to target certain sites, while the Iranian government justified restrictions on access to the Internet during the past days.
Bloomberg reported that scenes of arrival Palceolic missiles To Tel Aviv in the past few days, I paid a former Israeli cybersecurity official to issue a strict warning “Stop operating home surveillance cameras or change the password.”
“We know that in the past few days, the Iranians have tried to contact the cameras to understand what happened and where their missiles were hit to improve their accuracy,” said Rafael Franco, the former deputy general director of the Israeli National Cyber Security Directorate.
A spokesman for the Israeli National Cyber Security Directorate, a government agency, confirmed that the cameras connected to the Internet were increasingly targeted to plan the Iranian war.
The war between Israel and Iran escalated in cyber attacks, as a group of pirates supported Israeli known as the “predatory bird” responsibility for disrupting a large bank in Iran and the penetration of an Iranian exchange of digital currencies. In return, Iranian sources said that Israel launched a large -scale cyber attack on the vital infrastructure of the country.
Iran was not the first to be aware of the importance of surveillance cameras, as Gabi Burnoye, the former director of the Cyber Security Corporation, said that Hamas movement It took advantage of the surveillance cameras for planning for an operation Al -Aqsa Flood On October 7, 2023.
It can be easily penetrated
“The collection of intelligence information carried out by Hamas from the private cameras in the vicinity of Gaza was a disaster. Thousands of cameras were hacked over the years, whether public or private, and were used to collect intelligence information,” Porto added.
As cheap and popular, private security cameras are often easy to access and hack, and foreign intelligence services can provide information about the forces ’sites or help opponents determine the places of bombs.
In 2022, the Israeli cybersecurity warned that 66,000 personal cameras in Israel use a virtual password and can be easily penetrated by pirates.
After the Al -Aqsa Flood operation, the Israeli government issued an inconsistent directives urging citizens to enhance information security in their personal security cameras, including adding bilateral verification. It also obtained legal approval to stop the operation of traffic cameras and personal devices that display sensitive areas such as border or vital infrastructure, according to Porto.
Customers and Internet
On the other hand, the Iranian government spokeswoman announced that electronic attacks targeted vital infrastructure in the country, which led to a defect in the work of banks.
She added that imposing restrictions on the Internet came as a security measure to protect citizens and the country amid Israeli threats.
Iranian television announced today, Friday, the arrest of a person in the capital, Tehran, on charges of spying for the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad).
The television explained that the “Mossad agent” sent information about air defense installations to Israel using the WhatsApp application.
For its part, Faris News Agency said that the Iranian authorities arrested 16 people, which he described as “agents associated with Israel” in the Iranian province.
The police of Khuzestan Governorate, western Iran, confirmed the arrest of an agent of Israel and 4 supporters of Israel in the city of Suleiman Mosque.
She said that the customer received money to promote rumors, photograph sensitive sites and incite riots.