"In the dark corridors of the Iranian cyberspace, a ghost was born..."
Tehran, 2014. In a forgotten basement of Sharif University of Technology, three electrical engineering students were working on a top-secret project. They didn't know it, but they were creating the most feared tool in hacking history: H@B!B!.
Rumors always suggested that Habibi is Iranian military technology initially developed for Cyber War against Western powers. CIA leaked documents from 2019 mention a project called "SHAITAN" - the Iranian counterpart of Stuxnet. Many believe Habibi was the centerpiece of this program.
But the most accepted theory - and the one that makes the most sense - is that the creators of Havij are behind Habibi. The clues are in the name: "Habibi" (beloved in Arabic) and "Havij" (carrot in Persian) - both affectionate terms, both with the same 5-letter structure, both starting with 'H'.
In 2015, during nuclear negotiations in Vienna, security systems of five world powers reported "ghost activities" - unauthorized accesses that simply disappeared, as if they never happened. The logs showed a single word in Persian: "حبیبی".