{"id":60698,"date":"2024-09-20T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60698"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:12:09","slug":"reports-on-hack-of-ht-radios-icom-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/reports-on-hack-of-ht-radios-icom-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports on Hack of HT Radios\/ICOM Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

by Dan Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The explosions\/detonations of HT radios targeting the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon continue to make headlines, with latest reports digging into the origins of the units and containing reaction from ICOM.\u00a0 This story is one of those rare occasions when the radio manufacturing industry is thrust into the spotlight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Reuters reported<\/a> that:<\/p>\r\n

“The lethal hack of Hezbollah’s Asian-branded pagers and walkie-talkies has sparked an intense search for the devices’ path, revealing a murky market for older technologies where buyers may have few assurances about what they are getting. While supply chains and distribution channels for higher-margin and newer products are tightly managed, that’s not the case for older electronics from Asia where counterfeiting, surplus inventories and complex contract manufacturing deals can sometimes make it impossible to identify the source of a product, analysts and consultants say.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Reuters report also noted:<\/p>\r\n

“For Icom, one problem is that it stopped making the IC-V82 model in question a decade ago, around the time it started introducing holographic stickers as a protection against counterfeit products, the company said. The company has long warned about imitation products, especially of its older models. In fact, more than 7% of firms in Japan reported business losses from counterfeit products in 2020, according to the latest available report by the Japan Patent Office, with around a third of cases linked to China. Icom has urged that customers only use its official distributor network to ensure they are buying genuine products.” <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n

This earlier <\/a>Reuters report was published in The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Other reports were by Kyodo (see: https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2024\/09\/9d7c5ea04e62-exploding-walkie-talkies-in-lebanon-may-be-product-of-japanese-firm.html<\/a>, Bloomberg (appearing on the TIME website (https:\/\/time.com\/7022598\/lebanon-walkie-talkies-explosion-japan-icom\/<\/a>) and BBC (https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cz04m913m49o<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Another report, which quotes Ray Novak, ICOM U.S. representative, appeared<\/a> in The Washington Post.\u00a0 \u00a0It said ICOM was “[investigating the allegations, but early signs pointed to the walkie-talkies being counterfeit]”.\u00a0 ICOM had issued three statements<\/a> on its website as of mid-September 20th.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Dan Robinson The explosions\/detonations of HT radios targeting the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon continue to make headlines, with latest reports digging into the origins of the units and containing reaction from ICOM.\u00a0 This story is one of those rare occasions when the radio manufacturing industry is thrust into the spotlight. Reuters reported that: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,26],"tags":[2635,2884],"class_list":["post-60698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-radios","tag-dan-robinson","tag-icom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fN0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57799,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/dan-spots-an-icom-ht-in-netflix-series-spy-ops\/","url_meta":{"origin":60698,"position":0},"title":"Dan spots an Icom HT in Netflix Series “Spy Ops”","author":"Thomas","date":"September 21, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: In these screen grabs from Spy Ops, an Afghan military leader is shown using an ICOM HT as part of post 9\/11 operations against Taliban forces. 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