Slovakia's Interior Ministry planned to purchase 279 speed-monitoring cameras from a Cypriot supplier, but the country's National Security Authority (NBU) has confirmed the devices actually originate from Simicon, a manufacturer based in St. Petersburg, Russia, with their branding apparently altered to conceal their origin. Technical analysis revealed serious security flaws, including an undocumented slot for a second SIM card and the ability to receive remote commands via SMS from twelve phone numbers registered in the St. Petersburg region and Siberia — none of which were disclosed in product documentation. The case is particularly alarming because Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, is known to systematically exploit internet-connected surveillance cameras across Europe to track Western weapons shipments to Ukraine, making the covert placement of remotely controllable Russian cameras in an EU and NATO member state a significant security concern; Slovak prosecutors have launched an investigation, and the Interior Ministry has suspended the cameras' trial operation.