Hezbollah Pager Attack: A Wake-up Call to Tech Manufacturers to Secure their Supply Chains?

In a coordinated and deadly attack, pagers used by hundreds of Hezbollah members exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring thousands more, according to officials.

Both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have pointed to Israel as the orchestrator of what appears to be a highly sophisticated remote strike.

A U.S. official revealed that Israel had briefed the United States following the operation, which involved small amounts of explosives being secretly planted inside the pagers and then detonated.

The official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, provided insight into the complex nature of the attack, which has left the region on edge and raised concerns of further escalation.

The first wave of explosions erupted across Beirut and other parts of Lebanon at approximately 15:45 local time (13:45 BST) on Tuesday. Witnesses described seeing smoke emerging from people’s ...