Behzad Qasemi is the chief information security officer and an Iranian hacktivist. Due to the mechanism of the hacks carried out by him, Behzad Qasemi can be introduced as the biggest Iranian hacktivist from a technical point of view.
Apart from the fake news of hacks that took place after the protests in different countries, there are people who, having cyber capabilities, do hacks in the form of hacktivism in line with the declaration of protest. Qasemi, a cybersecurity expert, is one of these people who has hacktivist activities in Iran. which we will review.
Who is Behzad Qasemi
Behzad Qasemi was born in 1993 in Tehran. He has been working in the field of cybersecurity since he was a teenager. He is the founder and director of Overclock Cybersecurity laboratory. Qasemi is the designer of the Tehran Summer Code training camp, which teaches Persian-speaking people computer science and cybersecurity science for free. He is a lecturer and speaker of scientific conferences in Iranian universities and is also an information security researcher.
In 2018, the first workshop on digital forensics and productivity of Linux distributions to deal with security weaknesses was held in Iran, where Behzad Qasemi was present as the instructor of this workshop.
Behzad Qasemi started his hacktivist activities in 2010. During this time, he has hacked in order to protest the situation of the people of Iran’s Khuzestan province due to the lack of drinking water. Also, in 2018, he hacked the website of the General Directorate of Property and Document Registration in Bahrain.
From the latest Qasemi hack, we can mention the hacking of a number of websites to protest the Quran burning incident in European countries.
Technical review
Unlike other hacks carried out by hacktivist groups and individuals who generally focus on one operating system or one platform, the hacks carried out by Behzad Qasemi are spread across different operating systems, web servers, and platforms. With a closer examination of the Deface registered on the website of the Zone-H, you will realize that these intrusions in the operating system sector are not limited to Windows.
Hacking the website of the General Directorate of Real Estate Registration in Bahrain
On 2018-11-10 and at 19:00:08 GMT, the website of the General Directorate of Real Estate and Documents Registration of Bahrain, at the address slrb.gov.bh was hacked and it was registered on the Zone-H website with the ID number 31876110. The perpetrator introduces himself with the username qasemi.pro. The name is taken from the domain name of a website and this website belongs to Behzad Qasemi.
After checking this hack, we found out that this website was using Windows Server 2008 operating system and IIS/7.5 web server. On the other hand, we have encountered hacks carried out by qasemi.pro with Linux operating system and various distributions such as Alma Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora. The web servers of NginX, Apache and LightSpeed were the ones that Qasemi was able to pass through their security. WordPress, Drupal and Joomla content management systems and portals written in ASP.NET language have not been able to provide the necessary security to create safety against Behzad Qasemi’s intrusions.
From a technical point of view, according to the examined technical cases, Behzad Qasemi
can be given the title of the great Iranian hacktivist
because this person does not use toolsto penetrate and he is able to find zero-day security holes or create security holes. For a stable system online or offline
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