Shahid Hemmat

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Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, participates in malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Iranian hackers Manuchehr Akbari, Amir Hosein Hoseini, Mohammad Hosein Moradi, and Mohammad Reza Rafatinezhad are linked to Shahid Hemmat, a malicious cyber group that works for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC). They have been involved in various IRGC cyber and intelligence operations targeting U.S. critical infrastructure.

Shahid Hemmat has been linked to malicious cyber actors targeting U.S. defense industry and international transportation sectors. As a component of IRGC-CEC, Shahid Hemmat is connected to other IRGC-CEC associated individuals and organizations including: Mohammad Bagher Shirinkar, Mahdi Lashgarian, Alireza Shafie Nasab, and the front company Emennet Pasargad, Dadeh Afzar Arman (DAA), and Mehrsam Andisheh Saz Nik (MASN).