Arjun
IPCT Contributor
IDF Hacked Iran's compromised Dahua/Hikvision cameras
The Ayatollah thought port forwarding was a great idea but it landed him in h3ll.
Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter.
One camera had an angle that proved particularly useful, said one of the people, allowing them to determine where the men liked to park their personal cars and providing a window into the workings of a mundane part of the closely guarded compound.
Complex algorithms added details to dossiers on members of these security guards that included their addresses, hours of duty, routes they took to work and, most importantly, who they were usually assigned to protect and transport — building what intelligence officers call a “pattern of life”.
As if that is something our cameras are not already doing especially AI camerasSeriously. Given the carefully curated control over internet access in Iran, how the heck did Israel get the video feeds out?
This article has more detail, but not nearly enough: