The Exploding Pagers

[bachophile]

Taiwan was just the shipper

Manufacture in Hungary

TG’s resources know no bounds

Open Source Intel
@Osint613
Additional information about the company that sold the beepers to Hezbollah

• According to the Hungarian company registry, it turns out that the Hungarian company BAC Consulting KFT, which manufactured the beepers for Hezbollah, was only established in 2022 and reached a turnover of one million euros in just two years.

• The domain was purchased in 2020, two years before the company was founded.

• The domain previously belonged to another company.

• The company's website is filled with generic photos. It claims to specialize in various consulting fields, including environment, development, and international relations. It is unclear with whom the company has worked or what its experience is.

• The company's official address is a private residence in Budapest.

• The owner of the company, and apparently its only employee (according to the website), is Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, who has an impressive and maintained LinkedIn profile. However, it is filled with posts irrelevant to her work and not typical for LinkedIn.

• She holds a PhD, but she has no Facebook or Instagram accounts.

• There are only 3-4 pictures of her on the internet, which is very unusual.

• The other employees listed in the company have strange names, fake profiles, or are actual people who do not work for the company.

• Cristiana's LinkedIn profile was created in 2019.

• Her picture is also being used by another company, suggesting it may have been a fake picture.

• The other company also appears fake, and its phone number is disconnected.

The company's website was blocked this morning, now requiring a username and password to access.
Attempts to call the company or Cristiana have gone unanswered.

You can go and do some digging yourself.

[George K]

Some commentator said that this was a one-of type of thing. Of course, it can never be used again.

But, in this case, the thinking was "Use it or lose it."

[LuFins Dad]

If there was a shell manufacturer, then there needed to be someone on the inside to direct Hezbollah to purchase from this company.

[LuFins Dad]

@bachophile said in The Exploding Pagers:

Taiwan was just the shipper

Manufacture in Hungary

TG’s resources know no bounds

Open Source Intel
@Osint613
Additional information about the company that sold the beepers to Hezbollah

• According to the Hungarian company registry, it turns out that the Hungarian company BAC Consulting KFT, which manufactured the beepers for Hezbollah, was only established in 2022 and reached a turnover of one million euros in just two years.

• The domain was purchased in 2020, two years before the company was founded.

• The domain previously belonged to another company.

• The company's website is filled with generic photos. It claims to specialize in various consulting fields, including environment, development, and international relations. It is unclear with whom the company has worked or what its experience is.

• The company's official address is a private residence in Budapest.

• The owner of the company, and apparently its only employee (according to the website), is Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, who has an impressive and maintained LinkedIn profile. However, it is filled with posts irrelevant to her work and not typical for LinkedIn.

• She holds a PhD, but she has no Facebook or Instagram accounts.

• There are only 3-4 pictures of her on the internet, which is very unusual.

• The other employees listed in the company have strange names, fake profiles, or are actual people who do not work for the company.

• Cristiana's LinkedIn profile was created in 2019.

• Her picture is also being used by another company, suggesting it may have been a fake picture.

• The other company also appears fake, and its phone number is disconnected.

The company's website was blocked this morning, now requiring a username and password to access.
Attempts to call the company or Cristiana have gone unanswered.

You can go and do some digging yourself.

That still begs the question of whether it was a shell for Israel or for Hezbollah. Hezbollah can’t just call BlackBerry and order 5000 pagers…

[LuFins Dad]

And if it was Luxembourg, then they planned this and began implementing it well before current hostilities. And the turnaround had to be incredibly fast. Hezbollah switched from cell phones only a few months ago.

[89th]

@bachophile said in The Exploding Pagers:

She also spent time wandering around photographing embassies. Folks, we have a Mossad spy in our midst.

Allegedly the pager message sent right before it exploded displayed "555"

[George K]

@89th said in The Exploding Pagers:

Allegedly the pager message sent right before it exploded displayed "555"

Somewhere I read that the message was 5318008 (but you had to turn it upside down).

[George K]

https://nypost.com/2024/09/18/world-news/exploding-pagers-were-detonated-with-message-impersonating-hezbollah-leadership-report/

The exploding pagers that wounded thousands of Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon Tuesday were reportedly detonated by a message impersonating the leaders of the recognized terrorist group.

Hezbollah militants all across Lebanon and parts of Syria received a message that appeared to be sent by the group’s leadership to their new pagers at 3:30 p.m. But in reality, the fake message was the trigger that set off explosives hidden in the devices, officials told the New York Times.

The message triggered the batteries inside the pagers to overheat and ignite the explosives, sources told Sky News Arabia.

Mossad allegedly intercepted a shipment of the Taiwanese-made beepers before it reached Lebanon and planted 1 to 2 ounces of pentaerythritol tetranitrate, a highly explosive material, next to the battery, along with a remote trigger switch, the Times and Sky News Arabia reported.

The devices were brand new, but it’s unclear when they arrived in Lebanon or how long they had been in use.

[bachophile]

Very early reports. But right now it seems more unexplained explosions in Beirut.

[bachophile]

I’m hearing walkie talkies. But it’s still very unconfirmed.

[Horace]

Walkie Talkies are how they did Oct 7 as I recall.

[jon-nyc]

[LuFins Dad]

@bachophile said in The Exploding Pagers:

I’m hearing walkie talkies. But it’s still very unconfirmed.

Interesting, I wonder if it was more interactive, requiring the user to press the send button before exploding? If so, this will be far more lethal. If not, it’s quite possible many devices were not in effective range.

[jon-nyc]

[Renauda]

Brilliant.

[LuFins Dad]

Of course, the walk is talkies could carry a heavier charge than a pager.

“Muhammed, why are these walkie talkies so heavy?”

“Is good! They are built solidly! They will hold up during the great intifada!”

I would hate to be the Hezbollah procurement guy, right now.

[Horace]

Apple is known to put deadweight in their products because people are known to associate weight with quality.

[LuFins Dad]

This should lead to some pretty good Achmed the Dead Terrorist material

[bachophile]

So they say now, the luxembourgers understood that hezbollah would switch immediately to an alternate channel of communication and so the next echelon was targeted.

[bachophile]

@LuFins-Dad and maybe the hezbollah procurement guy is currently drinking a martini on Tel Aviv beach promenade?