Israeli Spy Firm Toka Says It Can Alter CCTV Footage Without Forensic Trace, Eyes Australia, U.S. and UK Contracts
October 18, 2026WHAT IF THE FOOTAGE THAT CONVICTS YOU WAS NEVER REAL?
An Israeli spy firm says it can hijack cameras and rewrite what they recorded, live and after the fact, leaving no forensic trace.
That’s Toka, co-founded by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and a former IDF cyber chief. The claim comes from its own internal documents and pitch deck, obtained by Haaretz and reviewed by a technical expert. It sells only to governments, and it was in touch with Israel, the US, Germany, Singapore and Australia. Its answer when asked who its customers are: we can’t say.
The same Silicon Valley firm that bankrolls it, Andreessen Horowitz, is also the biggest investor in Flock, the camera network spreading through American cities. Nobody has shown that Toka has touched a Flock camera. But think about what the pitch means.
If footage can be rewritten with no trace, then every video you’ve ever trusted is suspect. The clip that shows a police beating. The CCTV that proves your alibi. The recording that shows a state doing what it swears it didn’t. Delete it, doctor it, replace it, and nobody can prove it was ever different.
The tape that convicts you. The tape that clears you. The tape that shows what a police officer, a soldier or a state really did. All of it could be a lie, and nobody could tell.
That’s not a surveillance tool. That’s a way of erasing the truth and selling it to whoever pays.
Most cameras are one default password or one missing update away from being someone else’s camera. Check yours before someone else does.
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Sources: Haaretz (Dec 2022), TechSpot (Aug 2026)
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English Script:
There is a company that says it can hack a CCTV camera, rewrite what’s recorded on it, and leave no trace. And I’m a cybersecurity CEO and this is not a movie plot. This came out of their pitch deck and it’s called Toka. And in 2022, the newspaper Haaretz actually got hold of their internal documents. And the pitch is really simple. You pick an area and that software finds every single security camera and webcam in that vicinity and takes control. And you can watch live, you can change the live feed, you can change the footage that’s already being recorded. And they also pitched pulling location data out of cars in the exact same way. And according to their own documents, the US, Australia and the UK are already on the customer list. And the reason why it’s on the news is because of this guy. And he led a $275 million round in flock safety, and he’s the actual founder of the company. So does that mean Toca has hacked flock? No, but the same investor is behind the camera company that police use and the company that says it can change what’s on those cameras. And I’m doing a whole series on surveillance cameras, privacy spyware, stuff that you’ve never heard of. So if you liked this video, give this a follow because the next one is heaps worse.
