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Iranian hackers breached Vermont tech company to bypass sanctions, export controls: DOJ

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against two Iranian nationals accused of bypassing U.S. export controls by hacking into a Vermont tech company and then stealing and reselling sensitive aerodynamics software.

Prosecutors unsealed a federal indictment Monday charging Mohammed Reza Rezakhah and Mohammed Saeed Ajily in connection with an yearslong international conspiracy targeting Arrow Tech of Burlington and its Projectile Rocket Ordnance Design and Analysis System (PRODAS), proprietary software regulated by the U.S government because it’s used in the development of missiles, bullets and other warheads.

Read more at The Washington Times

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