{"id":220677,"date":"2026-03-06T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:45:11","slug":"from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War\u2019s \u2018Playbook\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook\/\">From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War\u2019s \u2018Playbook\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">For decades, satellites,<\/span> drones, and human spotters have all been part of war\u2019s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, internet-connected consumer devices, however, militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every hackable security camera installed outside a home or on a city street, pointed at potential bombing targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">On Wednesday, Tel Aviv\u2013based security firm Check Point released new research describing hundreds of hacking attempts that targeted consumer-grade security cameras around the Middle East\u2014with many apparently timed to Iran&#8217;s recent missile and drone strikes on targets that included Israel, Qatar, and Cyprus. Those camera-hijacking efforts, some of which Check Point has attributed to a hacker group that&#8217;s been previously linked to Iranian intelligence, suggest that Iran&#8217;s military has tried to use civilian surveillance cameras as a means to spot targets, plan strikes, or assess damage from its attacks as it retaliates for the US and Israeli bombings that have sparked a widening war in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Iran wouldn&#8217;t be the first to adopt that camera-hacking surveillance tactic. Earlier this week, the Financial Times reported that the Israeli military had accessed \u201cnearly all\u201d the traffic cameras in Iran&#8217;s capital of Tehran and, in partnership with the CIA, used them to target the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran\u2019s supreme leader. In Ukraine, the country&#8217;s officials have warned for years that Russia has hacked consumer surveillance cameras to target strikes and spy on troop movements\u2014while Ukrainian hackers have hijacked Russian cameras to surveil Russian troops and perhaps even to monitor its own attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Exploiting the insecurity of networked civilian cameras is, in other words, becoming part of the standard operating procedures of armed forces around the world: A relatively cheap and accessible means of getting eyes on a target hundreds of thousands of miles away&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War\u2019s \u2018Playbook\u2019 https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69a9c93009141c8fca7c8bff\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/security_IranCameras_GettyImages-1251774754.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-220677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220679,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220677\/revisions\/220679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}