The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged two Iranian nationals for hacking a US defense technology manufacturer and stealing software used in rocketry design.
Both the two suspects are Iranian businessmen ran their own separate companies, Mohammed Saeed Ajily, 35, owns a company named Andisheh VesaJ Middle East Company, which deals with selling of a software in contravention of Western sanctions against Iran. Most of their clients include Iranian private companies, but also Iranian military and government entities.
While, Mohammed Reza Rezakhah, 39, owns a company called Dongle Labs, which provided DRM and license cracking services.
In 2012, Ajily hired many hackers to steal software from western companies, Rezakhah was one of them. They compromised the US company's, Arrow-Tech, security system to download tools that are restricted from export under America's International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
According to the officials, "the two hackers stole a software application named Projectile Rocket Ordnance Design and Analysis System (PRODAS), which was developed by Arrow Tech to aid in the design of bullets, missiles, and other military projectiles."
The price tag of the software is usually between $40,000 to $800,000.
The FBI claimed that there are much more other partners with Ajily to had many other to obtain software.
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