Today the Southern District of New York (SDNY) unsealed an indictment charging Iranian nationals Hossein Harooni (حسین هارونی), Reza Kazemifar (رضاکاظمی فر), Komeil Baradaran Salmani (کمیل برادران سلمانی), and Alireza Shafie Nasab (علیرضا شفیعی نسب) for their involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign to compromise US government and private entities, including the US Departments of Treasury and State, defense contractors, and two New York-based companies. The FBI Cyber Division is investigating the case while the defendants remain at large.
“Criminal activity originating from Iran poses a grave threat to America’s national security and economic stability...”
US Attorney-General Merrick B. Garland.
According to one OSINT report, cybercrime will eventually cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. If measured as a country, cybercrime would be the world’s third-largest economy after the US and China, and therefore ahead of Germany and Japan in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).1
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Unsealed indictment linked here: www.justice.gov/…
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