Shahid Kaveh
An offensive cyber unit of the electronic and cyber centre of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-CEC), according to French authorities. They say it targets mainly Israel and the United States, also France and Europe, and that it has written attack scripts for Schneider Electric, Siemens and Rockwell industrial equipment since at least June 2024.
- Also known as
- CyberAveng3rs, Soldiers of Solomon, Mr. Soul, Cyber Isnaad Front
- Attribution
France's foreign ministry attributes to Iran, through the Shahid Kaveh unit, the October 11 to 12, 2026 sabotage of refrigeration controllers in about 700 French supermarket sites, on November 9, 2026. [1]
The French cyber crisis coordination centre (ANSSI, DGSE, DGSI, DGA, COMCYBER) says a body of evidence points to the IRGC as sponsor and Shahid Kaveh as executor. It lists CyberAveng3rs, Soldiers of Solomon, Mr. Soul and Cyber Isnaad Front as the unit's avatars and CyberbanNews as its outlet, and names Reza Salarvand and Mahdi Lashgarian as its commanders. [2]