From the WTAF dept: 3 killed, > 1,000 wounded in Beirut by exploding pagers:
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From the WTAF dept: 3 killed, > 1,000 wounded in Beirut by exploding pagers:
"BEIRUT, Sept 17 (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and more than 1,000 others including Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran's envoy to Beirut were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of conflict with Israel."
via @dangoodin
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NYT: Lebanon's health minister, Firas al-Abyad, said in a press conference that eight people were killed by exploding paging devices and at least 2,780 were wounded, including 200 in serious condition.
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Electronic pager devices also exploded in Syria, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency and to Saberin News, an outlet affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards. Saberin reported that seven people were killed in Syria from the blast targeting their devices in the Seyedah Zeinab neighborhood, a Shia stronghold in Damascus.
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@dangoodin @briankrebs trying to figure out if this was a supply chain attack where actual explosives were placed into the devices (which, if so, woah), or an extremely unfortunate combination of bad design involving oversized lithium batteries, improper enclosure design, a lack of inbuilt overcurrent and overtemperature protection in the cells, no discrete safety failsafe in the charge/discharge path, a BMS without safe programming limits, and remote exploitation / management feature abuse.
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NYT reports: Residents in Lebanon are scared to answer calls. One resident, Khadijeh Fouani, was preparing winter food supplies when she answered her phone by crying out, "Please hang up, hang up!"
Yeah, no $H!+! Completely sane reaction.