FSB chief warns of security threat to CIS countries after pager blasts in Lebanon – Military and defense

ASTANA, October 4. /TASS/. The remote detonations of pagers and walkie-talkies last month in Lebanon and Syria also indicate a security threat to CIS countries, Alexander Bortnikov, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), said at a meeting of the Council of Heads of CIS security and justice. Enforcement agencies.

“As the recent attacks that exploded pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon and Syria have shown, the results of an adversary’s intelligence gathering on the vulnerabilities of information sources and the clandestine introduction of ‘inserts’ cannot be used alone to destroy critical information infrastructure destroy, but also to organize assassinations of state officials who use their gadgets at the right time,” he noted. “This is a direct threat to the security of the CIS countries,” the FSB chief emphasized.

Summarizing the situation, he said that “the further development of the internal political situation in the CIS countries and ultimately their security” depends in many respects on joint and professional actions to combat international terrorism, transnational crime and drug trafficking. as well as protecting constitutional rights and ensuring information security.