Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is a jihadist militant and terrorist organization operating in West Africa, primarily in and around Nigeria. It emerged as a faction of Boko Haram aligned with the Islamic State and has been associated with insurgent violence in the Lake Chad region. ISWAP is commonly referenced alongside Boko Haram but is a distinct organization within the broader militant landscape. Available information here supports its identification as a terrorist actor linked to insurgent activity in Nigeria and to large-scale terrorism prosecutions by Nigerian authorities. High-confidence details on specific cyber capabilities, intrusion tradecraft, ransomware activity, or cyber-enabled targeting are not available from the supplied facts.
Mallory correlates actor tradecraft and target patterns against your stack, your sector, and your geography. See overlap before they land.
Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
1 distinct technique observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Match sector + geo + tech-stack targeting against your real footprint.
Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.