IRANIAN TERRORISTS HACKING PHONES WORLDWIDE
Hezbollah stole personal data, controlled cameras to
spy, by Art Moore, 10/11/18.
Hackers deployed by the Iranian
government’s proxy terrorist group Hezbollah infiltrated mobile devices worldwide,
obtaining access to the personal information of unsuspected social media users,
according to the Czech Security Intelligence Service.
The Hezbollah hackers used a
“catfishing” technique, posing on Facebook as attractive women to seduce users
into downloading a “more private and secure application,” reported Radio
Prague, according to the International Project on
Terrorism.
Installing the application gave the
hackers access to sensitive information such as GPS data, photographs, contacts
and communications.
The hackers could also secretly enable
the recording function on a particular mobile device to spy on the target.
The Czech intelligence service said it
cooperated with international partners to identify and disarm servers used in
Hezbollah’s cyber espionage campaign.
Miroslav Mares, professor of
international politics at Masrayk University, noted the Czech Republic has
traditionally been regarded as an ally of Israel and the United States in
actions to combat a growing cyber espionage effort by Hezbollah, which is on
the European Union’s terrorist list.
IPT said the Palestinian terrorist group
Hamas has used fake dating applications to seduce Israeli soldiers and install
spyware on their phones.
Israel’s
YNet News cited a senior Israeli intelligence official in July who disclosed
that Israel “identified a similar method in the January 2017 when the IDF
uncovered that a Gazan terrorist group lures soldiers by using fake women’s
profiles before infecting their phones with spyware.”
Nitzan Ziv, vice president of Check
Point Software Technologies, explained that the “minute the spy software is
installed on a smartphone the attackers can hear everything that is going on in
the room.”
Ziv said the hackers can have access “to
each file downloaded on the phone, activate the phone’s camera and get the
specific location of the phone.”
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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