Forwarded from BlackBox (Security) Archiv
Revealed: Israeli Firm Provided Phone-hacking Services to Saudi Arabia
A representative of Cellebrite, which states that it has complied with the rules, flew to Riyadh from London last November, and at the request of the Saudi prosecutor’s office hacked into a Samsung cellphone
In November of last year, a representative of the Israeli firm Cellebrite landed at King Khaled International Airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The man, a foreign national whose identity is known to TheMarker, Haaretz’s sister publication, arrived on a commercial flight from London to hack into a phone in the possession of the Saudi Justice Ministry. The details of the visit were agreed upon before the hacker landed.
The staff at Cellebrite demanded of the Saudis that their employee be met at the Riyadh airport by a government representative. They insisted that he pass through passport control without his passport being stamped and without an inspection of the electronic equipment that he would have with him, which they demanded would not leave his possession and only which he would use.
From there, it was agreed in advance that the hacker would be immediately taken to an isolated hotel room, where the Saudis committed not to install cameras – and where the job of hacking and copying information from a mobile cellphone was carried out. When the work was completed, Cellebrite’s representative returned to the airport and flew back to London.
Cellebrite is not the only Israeli company to provide hacking or other cybersecurity services to the Saudi kingdom, but it is apparently the only one that does so without any oversight from the Israeli Defense Ministry.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-revealed-israeli-firm-provided-phone-hacking-services-to-saudi-arabia-1.9161374
👀 👉🏼 https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1306233686761889798
#israel #hacking #samsung #cellebrite #saudiarabia
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag
A representative of Cellebrite, which states that it has complied with the rules, flew to Riyadh from London last November, and at the request of the Saudi prosecutor’s office hacked into a Samsung cellphone
In November of last year, a representative of the Israeli firm Cellebrite landed at King Khaled International Airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The man, a foreign national whose identity is known to TheMarker, Haaretz’s sister publication, arrived on a commercial flight from London to hack into a phone in the possession of the Saudi Justice Ministry. The details of the visit were agreed upon before the hacker landed.
The staff at Cellebrite demanded of the Saudis that their employee be met at the Riyadh airport by a government representative. They insisted that he pass through passport control without his passport being stamped and without an inspection of the electronic equipment that he would have with him, which they demanded would not leave his possession and only which he would use.
From there, it was agreed in advance that the hacker would be immediately taken to an isolated hotel room, where the Saudis committed not to install cameras – and where the job of hacking and copying information from a mobile cellphone was carried out. When the work was completed, Cellebrite’s representative returned to the airport and flew back to London.
Cellebrite is not the only Israeli company to provide hacking or other cybersecurity services to the Saudi kingdom, but it is apparently the only one that does so without any oversight from the Israeli Defense Ministry.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-revealed-israeli-firm-provided-phone-hacking-services-to-saudi-arabia-1.9161374
👀 👉🏼 https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1306233686761889798
#israel #hacking #samsung #cellebrite #saudiarabia
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag
Haaretz.com
Revealed: Israeli firm provided phone-hacking services to Saudi Arabia
***
Forwarded from Rybar in English
🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇸 Regarding the transfer of American air defense and missile defense systems to the Middle East
The Internet is abuzz with discussions about the transfer of 12 air and missile defense systems to the Middle East, as part of the reinforcement of the American group.
▪️ One battery of THAAD missile defense systems will be sent to Saudi Arabia, likely to the Al-Kharj and King Abdul Aziz bases, where American aviation is stationed.
▪️ MIM-104 Patriot systems will be transported to Kuwait, Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Similar to THAAD, they will be stationed at American military facilities.
🔻Distributing air defense and missile defense systems across different countries serves a practical purpose: when looking at the map, it becomes apparent that this covers a wide area of potentially dangerous activity by Iranian proxies and Iran itself.
Using the protection against pro-Iranian forces as a convenient pretext, the US justifies increasing its military presence in the region and the resulting increase in military spending to safeguard the American military contingent in the Middle East.
Strikes by two or three UAVs on US military bases do not significantly impact the situation. However, they do enable the Americans to justify the substantial costs of maintaining large forces in the region and keeping a sizable group prepared in case the situation worsens.
#Israel #Iran #NATO #Palestine #SaudiArabia #USA
Support us Original msg
The Internet is abuzz with discussions about the transfer of 12 air and missile defense systems to the Middle East, as part of the reinforcement of the American group.
▪️ One battery of THAAD missile defense systems will be sent to Saudi Arabia, likely to the Al-Kharj and King Abdul Aziz bases, where American aviation is stationed.
▪️ MIM-104 Patriot systems will be transported to Kuwait, Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Similar to THAAD, they will be stationed at American military facilities.
🔻Distributing air defense and missile defense systems across different countries serves a practical purpose: when looking at the map, it becomes apparent that this covers a wide area of potentially dangerous activity by Iranian proxies and Iran itself.
Using the protection against pro-Iranian forces as a convenient pretext, the US justifies increasing its military presence in the region and the resulting increase in military spending to safeguard the American military contingent in the Middle East.
Strikes by two or three UAVs on US military bases do not significantly impact the situation. However, they do enable the Americans to justify the substantial costs of maintaining large forces in the region and keeping a sizable group prepared in case the situation worsens.
#Israel #Iran #NATO #Palestine #SaudiArabia #USA
Support us Original msg