Khaldoun Shobaki

Khaldoun Shobaki is an Assistant United States Attorney in the National Security Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He previously served as the Chief of the Cyber & Intellectual Property Crimes Section. For most of the last decade, he has investigated, disrupted, and prosecuted matters involving malware, ransomware, computer intrusions, cryptocurrency frauds, hacking, cyber heists, dark web vendors, and cyberstalking by both criminal and nation-state actors. Some examples of his work include the investigation and prosecution of North Korea’s Lazarus Group / APT38 and their enablers, the disruption and takedown of the Qakbot botnet, seizure of stolen cryptocurrency, and prosecution of the administrator of Qakbot; and the prosecution at trial and through appeal of an IEEPA conspiracy to export high-powered Gallium Nitride (GaN) radar power amplifiers to China. In a prior life, he was a computer programmer and computer systems administrator. Mr. Shobaki is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and Harvey Mudd College.