“Working rapidly with our private sector and U.S. “The FBI remains committed to countering malicious cyber activity targeting our democratic process,” said Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran of the FBI’s Cyber Division. government partners, Kazemi and Kashian will forever look over their shoulders as we strive to bring them to justice.” As a result of the charges unsealed today, and the concurrent efforts of our U.S. The United States will never tolerate any foreign actors’ attempts to undermine our free and democratic elections. voters via email, and even disseminated a fictitious video that purported to depict actors fabricating overseas ballots. “Working with others, Kazemi and Kashian accessed voter information from at least one state’s voter database, threatened U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. “As alleged, Kazemi and Kashian were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the U.S. The Department is committed to exposing and disrupting malign foreign influence efforts using all available tools, including criminal charges.” “The allegations illustrate how foreign disinformation campaigns operate and seek to influence the American public. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. electoral system and to sow discord among Americans,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. “This indictment details how two Iran-based actors waged a targeted, coordinated campaign to erode confidence in the integrity of the U.S. media company’s computer network that, if not for successful FBI and victim company efforts to mitigate, would have provided the conspirators another vehicle to disseminate false claims after the election. voter information from at least one state election website sent threatening email messages to intimidate and interfere with voters created and disseminated a video containing disinformation about purported election infrastructure vulnerabilities attempted to access, without authorization, several states’ voting-related websites and successfully gained unauthorized access to a U.S. presidential election.Īccording to court documents, Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi (سید محمد حسین موسی کاظمی), aka Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazem, aka Hosein Zamani, 24, and Sajjad Kashian (سجاد کاشیان), aka Kiarash Nabavi, 27, both of Iran, obtained confidential U.S. An indictment was unsealed in New York today charging two Iranian nationals for their involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign to intimidate and influence American voters, and otherwise undermine voter confidence and sow discord, in connection with the 2020 U.S.
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