Behzad Qasemi

Behzad Qasemi at 2021.

### Known for

Founder of OVERCLOCK™ Cybersecurity lab, Hacktivist . Cyber Hacktivist . Chief Information Security Officer

### Education

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

### Website

https://qasemi.pro

**Behzad Qasemi** was born on September 26, 1993 in Tehran, Iran, is a Chief Information Security Officer, Hacker and cyber theorist from Iran. He is the founder of OVERCLOCK™ Cybersecurity lab and TSC Learning Camp and the owner of Overclock Innovation Factory. Qasemi has activities in the form of hacktivism. According to the report of the website of Zone-H, his intrusions are far from vandalism and destructiveness, and have only been done for the purpose of information and non-destructive protest. He is also the author of the 14-year-old hacker book.

## Activity

Behzad Qasemi was born on September 26, 1993 in Tehran, Iran, is a Chief Information Security Officer, Computer Scientist, cyber security expert and cyber theorist, writer and cyber activist (hacktivist). He started his activities since he was a teenager in 2009. Qasemi is the founder of Overclock Cyber Security Laboratory, which is known as Overclock Scientific and Research Group. Also, he is the designer and founder of Tehran Summer Code.

In May 2018, in Gilan province, for the first time, an event focusing on digital forensics and promoting Linux was held in Rasht city by Overclock scientific and research group, where Behzad Qasemi was present as a lecturer and supervisor in this event. Also, in the first national event of operation development, cyber security and blockchain, which was organized by Islamic Azad University and Iran Center of security of the production and exchange of presidential information (AFTA), Behzad Qasemi, as the lecturer of this seminar, presented a presentation on the importance of the issue of operation development and blockchain.

## Education

Behzad Qasemi, who is also known as a cyber security expert, has a degree Certified information systems security professional (CISSP) from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)².

## Seminars

* The importance of cyber security (the first Iran Parrot Linux Workshop - May 2017)
* Flowology in hacktivism (the first workshop of Parrot Linux in Iran - May 2017)
* Harms of cryptocurrency mining for the environment (Cryptocurrencies and Iran's economy, opportunities and challenges - October 2020)
* The blockchain network will not be safe from malware either (Cryptocurrencies and Iran's economy, opportunities and challenges - October 2019)
* Personalization of decentralized platforms (Blockchain depth - February 2021)
* The use of blockchain reduces costs in securing the infrastructure of industrial networks (Blockchain Depth - February 2021)
* Behzad Qasemi at the 2022 DEVSEC conference of Islamic Azad University The important role of developing operations and securing platforms (DEVSEC, Islamic Azad University - June 2022)
* Cyberbullying will be more lethal than other cyber malware. (Tehran Summer Day - June 2023)

## Articles, interviews and notes

* Behzad Qasemi; Hacktivism, from dream to reality (Shargh newspaper)
* We have no choice but to accept "Blockchain" (Iran Banking Economic News Network - Ibna)
* Smart malware is the result of artificial intelligence (Mardomsalari newspaper)
* Theory Cyber health
* Behzad Qasemi; Cyber terrorism is closer to the members of the society than before (Analytical news base Vaghayerooz)
* Theory theory Information Isolation Theory (Asia Newspaper) (Turkey Channel 5)  (BIZIMTV Network)  (Tehran Times Newspaper)
* Theory Boolean cyber theory, a cyber anomaly that is more destructive than malware (Asia English Newspaper)  (New Information Technology News Network)
* The Art of Cyber Security (Iran Press News Agency)
* Interview with Behzad Qasemi, Iranian cyber security expert (Iran Cyber News News Agency)
* Theory Corona theory is a cyber virus (Techrato Analytical News Base)
* Behzad Qasemi; The CVE-2023-3519 vulnerability would be catastrophic (Technology pulse analytical news base)

## Hacktivism

The registered hacks of Behzad Qasemi are registered in the global hacker database (Zone-H) under the alias qasemi.pro, a name taken from the domain address of her personal website.

* 2012: Taking the website of Charlie Hebdo magazine out of reach due to the publication of caricatures of the Prophet of Islam.
* 2018: hacking of a number of Iranian websites in protest of the disorderly situation of the people of Khuzestan
* 2018: Hacking of the website of the Bahrain Registry Office after one of the officials of Bahrain insulted the people of Iran
* 2023: hacking of a number of sites following the protest against the burning of the Quran in Sweden

"If you take a deeper look at the websites he hacked, you will find that the intrusions were not limited to just one operating system or one particular web server. "Behzad Qasemi was able to infiltrate servers with Windows and Linux operating systems, from Apache, Nginx, Lightspeed web servers and WordPress, Joomla, Drupal content management systems and dedicated portals written in ASP language."

"In all the intrusions carried out by Behzad Qasemi, we see one thing in common, and that is their non-destructive nature. In all of his protest statements, there is a common thread: this is a non-malicious intrusion and your data has not been harmed. Contrary to the general claims and even intrusions that are based on denial of service attacks (DDOS) and without accessing the databases and only by consuming too much bandwidth, Qasemi makes the website inaccessible by infiltrating deep into the infrastructure. A website and database, without harming information or publishing information, simply publishes his protest statements in the form of a cyber activist (hacktivist). [1]

## External Links

* Behzad Qasemi on the official website of Overclock Cyber Security Laboratory
* Behzad Qasemi's information in the DEVSEC event profile
* Behzad Qasemi on the website of Zone-H
* Behzad Qasemi on Instagram
* Behzad Qasemi on Twitter
* The Great Iranian Hacktivist; Behzad Qasemi
* Behzad Qasemi Iranian Cyber Activist

## References

1. ↑ Interview with Behzad Qasemi, a cybersecurity expert - **Techrato News Base**
2. ↑ Developing cyber security with a young Iranian scientist - **Khabar Online News Agency**
3. ↑ The Art of Cybersecurity - More than a decade of experience in the world of cyber security with **Behzad Qasemi -** Iran Press News Agency
4. ↑ Information isolation, the future of information security with Behzad Qasemi - TehranTimes
5. ↑ Behzad Qasemi ile bilgi izolasyonu, bilgi güvenliğinin geleceği - TV5
6. ↑ Behzad Qasemi, siber bilgi izolasyon teorisinin sahibi - BizimTV
7. ↑ Behzad Qasemi; Cyberbullying, a cyber anomaly that is more destructive than malware - Asia Newspaper
8. ↑ Behzad Qasemi interview - Asianews Agency
9. ↑ Cyberbullying, a cyber anomaly that is more destructive than malware - Iran ICT PRESS
10. ↑ Behzad Qasemi; Hacktivism from dream to reality - Shargh Newspaper
11. ↑ We have no choice but to accept "Blockchain" Iran Banking Economic News Network - Ibna
12. ↑ Smart malware is the result of artificial intelligence - Mardomsalari newspaper
13. ↑ Cyber health with Behzad Qasemi
14. ↑ Behzad Qasemi; Cyber terrorism is closer to the members of the society than before - Analytical news base Vaghayerooz
15. ↑ More than a decade of experience in the world of cyber security with Behzad Qasemi - Iran Press News Agency
16. ↑ Interview with Behzad Qasemi, an Iranian cyber security expert - Iranian Cyber News Agency
17. ↑ Behzad Qasemi; The CVE-2023-3519 vulnerability would be catastrophic (Technology pulse analytical news base)
18. ↑ Behzad Qasemi Iranian Cybersecurity Expert - IranPress News Agency