What Can Organizations Learn from Grim Beeper? [B-Side]

On 17 and 18 of September 2024, thousands of pagers and hand held radio devices used by Hezbollah, exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 42 terrorists and wounding more than 3,000.

Devon Ackerman, Cybereason’s Global Head of Digital Forensic and Incident response and a former Special Agent at the FBI's Operational Technology Division, discusses the lessons organizations can learn from this ultra-sophisticated supply chain attack. How such traumatic events impact the mindset of hacked organizations, what kind of threat actors are capable of pulling off long-term attacks like these, and the three most important steps organizations can take to minimize the chance of a supply chain attack.

Hosted By

Ran Levi

Co-Founder @ PI Media

Born in Israel in 1975, Ran studied Electrical Engineering at the Technion Institute of Technology, and worked as an electronics engineer and programmer for several High Tech companies in Israel.
In 2007, created the popular Israeli podcast, Making History, with over 16 million downloads as of Nov 2023.
Author of 3 books (all in Hebrew): Perpetuum Mobile: About the history of Perpetual Motion Machines; The Little University of Science: A book about all of Science (well, the important bits, anyway) in bite-sized chunks; Battle of Minds: About the history of computer malware.

Reach out to me via ran@ranlevi.com.

Special Guest

Devon Ackerman

Cybereason’s Global Head of Digital Forensic and Incident Response

Creator of AboutDFIR.com and author of the best selling cyber security book “Diving In: An Incident Responder’s Journey.” Before entering the private sector, Devon served as a Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI's Operational Technology Division in the CART Field Operations Unit. He navigated digital forensic and incident response issues, managed executive management relationships, organized team deployments during mass collection events, such as the San Bernardino Domestic Terrorism shooting (Apple iPhones) and served as a senior certified Forensic Examiner (CART) for on-scene collections and forensic analysis.