Tehran traffic cameras hacked by Israeli spies to track Khamenei

Israeli spies hacked nearly every traffic camera in Tehran for years in order to monitor the movements of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an unprecedented intelligence-gathering campaign, according to The Independent.

The article notes that officials surveilled highly trained and loyal security guards, bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials to pick up on their “pattern of life.” Real-time data, including from cameras focused on Khamenei’s personal compound, was encrypted and transmitted back to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel. The spies were able to determine where the guards would park their cars via an infiltrated security camera facing the Ayatollah’s home. The report is presented by Maira Butt for DataBreaches[.]Net and references the Financial Times in outlining the findings.