Syrian troops (former Al-Qaeda) had found Israeli listening and spying devices there. The troops were in the process of dismantling the devices when they were killed (6 of them) by Israeli air strikes, and then Israeli forces came in 4 helicopters and stayed for 2 hours to take the equipment.

Israeli warplanes and drones prevented Syrian forces from entering the area until late on Wednesday night, after Israeli forces had left the site. A Syrian military source told Al Jazeera that dozens of Israeli troops travelled to the site in four helicopters and spent more than two hours there, though it is unclear what exactly they did.

The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, posted on 𝕏 that forces were “operating in all combat zones day and night for the security of Israel”, but otherwise offered no explanation.

Organizations like Meta / Yandex have stopped this intrusive privacy breaching activity.

Think of it as a playbook for advanced AI agent design.

This combination enabled malicious actors to disseminate exploits via WhatsApp, resulting in potential data exfiltration from the user's Apple device.

Operation highlights:

🔍 26 searches conducted

👥 5 main operators apprehended

📦 1,200 SIM-boxes running 40,000 SIM cards seized

💳 Hundreds of thousands of additional SIM cards confiscated

🌐 5 servers hosting the illegal service dismantled

💻 2 domains — gogetsms.com & apisim.com — seized and replaced with law enforcement splash pages

💶 €431,000 frozen in bank accounts

💰 $333,000 in crypto seized

🚗 4 luxury cars confiscated


💡 Credits: @smspoolnet (𝕏)
🔗 More: https://x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/1978603403354792430

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