Individual

Yaron Rosen

Co-founder & President, Toka · former head of the IDF cyber staff

The founding head of the Israel Defense Forces' cyber command, who co-founded Toka to sell offensive cyber capabilities — including device and camera intrusion — to governments.

On the record

▸Helped build Israel's military cyber doctrine before commercializing it.
▸Positions Toka as a way for state agencies to reach into connected devices.

Companies

Toka→

Incidents in their orbit

Investigation

Selling the power to hack — and alter — camera feeds

2021

Reporting revealed Toka markets government tools to break into security cameras and IoT devices, with capabilities that in some accounts extend to altering footage — a direct threat to evidence integrity and privacy.

↳This 'Dystopian' Cyber Firm Could Have Saved Mossad Assassins From Exposure — Haaretz, 2022 ↗

Sources

↳Toka's founders and mission — Calcalist, 2018