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GreyNoise's Threat Intelligence Map visualizes network events across the internet, scans, probes, attacks + connects them to geopolitical context. Real-time intelligence, that looks pretty cool too 😎 🗺️

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🇮🇷 The cameras were installed to watch the people. They ended up watching the ruler. For years, Iran poured tens of thousands of surveillance cameras into the streets of Tehran. The regime’s logic was simple: after waves of protests that killed thousands, it needed eyes everywhere. On every corner, above every intersection, across every square where crowds could gather. The Islamic Republic built one of the most comprehensive urban surveillance networks in the Middle East. It was, in the regime’s view, the infrastructure of permanent control. It became something else entirely.  According to an AP investigation backed by multiple intelligence sources, nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras had been hacked by Israeli intelligence, with the encrypted footage streamed in real time to servers in Israel.  The operation had been running for years. Quietly. Continuously. At least one camera was positioned at an angle that let Israeli analysts track exactly where bodyguards parked their personal vehicles near the leadership compound.  Small details. Repeated daily. Assembled over months into something precise and lethal. Israel’s Unit 8200 used AI and complex algorithms to build what intelligence professionals call a “life pattern” on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his security personnel: their travel routes, daily schedules, the identities of officials who regularly appeared at his side.  The system processed billions of data points. Social network analysis was applied to identify decision-making centers and map relationships across the entire protection apparatus.  An unnamed Israeli intelligence official described it to the Financial Times in stark terms: “We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem.” That the cameras were compromised was not a closely guarded secret. Tehran’s cameras had been breached repeatedly since 2021. Last year, a senior Iranian politician publicly warned that Israeli access to the network posed a national security threat.  The warning was noted. And then, apparently, not acted upon. Pirated versions of Windows, outdated hardware, Chinese-manufactured electronics from sanctioned supply chains: Iran’s surveillance infrastructure was riddled with vulnerabilities that it had no easy means of patching.  On the morning of February 28, the compound on Pasteur Street was struck by 30 missiles. Cellular towers in the surrounding area had been disrupted beforehand, preventing Khamenei’s security detail from receiving warning calls.  Trump gave the order the previous afternoon, at 3:38 p.m. Eastern Time, as he flew to Corpus Christi for a speech about energy. The message read: “Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck.”  The confirmation came early Sunday morning, when Iranian state television announced that the Supreme Leader had reached martyrdom.  The story that will be told about this operation for decades involves missiles, intelligence networks, and geopolitical calculations. But underneath all of it is something almost absurdly mundane: a traffic camera on a Tehran street corner, running pirated software, quietly sending its footage to a server it was never supposed to reach. “The irony,” said Conor Healy of surveillance research publication IPVM, “is that the infrastructure authoritarian states build to make their rule unassailable may be what makes their leaders most visible to the people trying to kill them.”  The cameras were installed to watch the people. In the end, they watched Khamenei. Gandalv / Gandalv

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