'A scenario in which someone is accused of something and doesn't know if the evidence presented against them is real or not is truly dystopian.'
"A scenario in which someone is accused of something and doesn't know if the evidence presented against them is real or not is truly dystopian."A human rights attorney raised alarm Monday over the expansion plans of Toka, an Israeli cyber firm that sells hacking technologies capable of finding, accessing, and manipulating security and smart camera footage.
Co-founded by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Israel Defense Forces cyber chief Yaron Rosen, Toka "sells technologies that allow clients to locate security cameras or even webcams within a given perimeter, hack into them, watch their live feed, and even alter it—and past recordings,""One can imagine video being manipulated to incriminate innocent citizens or shield guilty parties.
The company, whose activities are overseen by the Israeli Defense Ministry, "was set up in 2018 and has offices in Tel Aviv and Washington,"reported. "It works solely with state clients in government, intelligence bodies, and law enforcement agencies, almost exclusively—but not just—in the West. According to the internal documents, as of 2021, the company had contracts with Israel valued at $6 million, and had also planned an 'expansion of existing deployment' in Israel.
Toka can tap into web-connected cameras found virtually everywhere—intersections, parking lots, malls, hotels, airports, and even homes. Haaretz compared the firm's "cyberoffense" capabilities to the 2001 heist movieIn that film, an "elite crew led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt hack the closed-circuit TV system of the Las Vegas casino vault they are trying to break into, diverting its feed to a mock safe they built in a nearby warehouse," the outlet noted.
Technical documents reviewed by an ethical hacker prove that Toka's tech can alter both live and recorded video feeds—all without leaving any forensics or telltale signs of a hack (in contrast to NSO's
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