The increasingly response to the death of Ali Khamenei the first day of the US attacks on Iran.
Two close sources have, on condition of anonymity, that Russian security services have closed a special system that the state had in place to protect Putin and his immediate entourage.
The ‘scare’ born in the Kremlin itself led to the technicians turned off an entire video surveillance system temporarily. Its reconnection came only when engineers carefully reviewed its operations, trying to ‘hermetically’ isolate it from remote Internet connections.
In the eyes of Moscow, he and other senior Iranian officials showed how the use of artificial intelligence you can make the most of the millions of hours of security cameras captured by the different networks of official buildings. Everything, with an obvious purpose, to find information about the objectives to attack and possible ‘gaps’ to carry out the attacks.
Although the Kremlin does not want to admit this circumstance, internal sources do speak of the security risk in Russia. This is what he pointed out director del FSB ruso, Alexander Bortnikovwho last week told regional security chiefs that the immense national surveillance apparatus was, in itself, an enormous vulnerabilityfor collecting information of all kinds within the reach of AI spy systems.
“The recent removal of senior Iranian officials by the US-Israel alliance is a clear warning sign“since the victims were identified and monitored “through vulnerabilities in Tehran’s video surveillance systems,” he noted internally on May 26, in a communication collected by state agencies.
The issue comes from a long time ago for Moscow, but the events in Tehran triggered its fears. Because some time ago it was known that The Ukrainian intelligence services managed to hack traffic cameras in Russiauntil infiltrating them. It wasn’t their only large-scale cyberattack; also They intercepted location data from mobile phones of senior military commanders for later end their lives.
In a statement to Financial Timesand hacker Ukrainian admitted that in the around the Kremlin and in other parts of Moscow las security cameras “are still working and are hacked regularly”although he did not want to specify whether kyiv was behind these cyber attacks.