Israel hacked Iran's surveillance cameras and tracked the location of Ali Khamenei and targeted him. Khamenei's every activity was monitored using cameras in Tehran. According to reports, this operation was planned in advance. On the basis of information received from the cameras, information about their travel routes, whereabouts and security was collected. In fact, there are millions of cameras installed in shops, homes and streets around the world. Many of these are connected to the Internet, but their security is weak.
With the help of AI, now the footage of these cameras can be viewed quickly and a person or vehicle can be identified immediately. Due to the sanctions imposed on Iran, it faces difficulty in getting up-to-date hardware and software. For this reason, people use Chinese devices or use old software. Pirated software is also used in many places, which further increases the risk of hacking.
Thousands of cameras were installed in Iran to keep an eye on the protests. But these cameras became his biggest weakness. Tehran's cameras had been hacked several times since 2021. In 2022, a group leaked data of more than 5000 cameras. one in 2023 Iranian The leader had also said that the cameras could come under the control of Israel.
Cyber experts say that cameras are very easy to hack. In many cameras, people keep simple passwords like 1234 or do not update the software. In 2019, an engineer had told that he can hack millions of cameras sitting at home. Even today, there are about 3 million cameras in the world without security, of which about 2000 are in Iran.
According to reports, Israel had hacked Tehran's traffic cameras long ago and was sending their data to its servers. Through these cameras, information related to people's daily activities, their routes and security was being obtained. With the help of AI, it was found out who goes where and who protects whom.
Earlier cameras were used only for surveillance, but now it has become a major weapon of war. In 2023, Hamas also hacked Israel's cameras, and this was also seen in the Russia-Ukraine war. Today there are more than 1 billion cameras installed in the world and crores of new cameras are being added every year. In such a situation, the danger is increasing that any country can suffer loss due to its own cameras.
