Not much is unknown about the attack that injured thousands in Lebanon, except that it clearly goes beyond a simple bombing.
At around 3.30pm local time in Lebanon on Tuesday, pagers started exploding. The devices – more modern versions of the kind that many businesspeople used to receive messages before the advent of mobile phones – appear to have been hijacked in a targeted attack against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group.Modern pagers were made to explode, injuring Hezbollah fighters and others.
In this case, the pagers appear to have created far smaller explosions than either of those two examples, but the added complexity this time is that many devices went off at the same time. Since these are devices that are very likely to be held in the hands or pockets of the targets, that’s still a hugely damaging attack.Social media was, predictably, filled with security people discussing this very question.
“My guess is a small plastic explosive payload was inserted in the supply chain. The really interesting part is the detonation mechanism, both software and hardware.”as saying that a small amount of explosive material was inserted next to the battery in each pager, along with a switch that could be triggered remotely.
“You would have to imagine then that this is a combination of not just hardware but software as well , to be able to near simultaneously set all these things off at once.”The pagers reportedly carried the brand of Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese company, and some online claimed the pagers were specifically a model called the AR924, which is marketed as a rugged design with long battery life.A shipment of pagers was reportedly ordered by Hezbollah months ago.
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