Hezbollah earlier this year ordered thousands of pagers after leader Hassan Nasrallah declared smartphones would be more susceptible to cyber attacks by Israeli forces. Israeli military and intelligence personnel managed to access 5,000 pagers, produced in Budapest by BAC Consulting KFT, 'at the production level' and insert a small amount of high explosives months before they were imported to Lebanon, according to several security sources who spoke to Reuters. 'The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner,' a Lebanese security source said. Elijah J. Magnier, a Brussels-based senior political risk analyst, later said he spoke with Hezbollah members who had examined pagers that failed to explode. The pagers appeared to receive a coded error message sent to all the devices that caused them to vibrate and beep for some 10 seconds. When the user pressed the pager's button to cancel the alert, the explosives were detonated - a design that would ensure the pager was being held by the user at the time of the blast to inflict maximum damage.
How Israeli spies 'stashed explosives in 5,000 European-made pagers at production level months ago before detonating Hezbollah devices' - as 'coded text message that triggered blasts' is revealed
