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Imperial Kitten is an Iranian state-linked threat actor widely associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and commonly linked with the Tortoiseshell and APT35 naming clusters. The group is primarily known for espionage, social engineering, and surveillance-oriented operations, and has been observed adapting its activity to regional conflict dynamics. Reporting also describes overlap between Imperial Kitten and OT-focused activity tracked as Pyroxene. Imperial Kitten has targeted Israeli organizations, particularly transportation and logistics entities, and has used conflict-themed phishing and other social-engineering lures to collect victim data and deliver remote-access malware. The group has also been associated with spear-phishing, credential-focused intrusion activity, persistent access through actor-controlled infrastructure, and reconnaissance against intelligence-rich environments. A notable aspect of Imperial Kitten’s activity is its reported role in cyber-enabled kinetic targeting. The group has been linked to compromises of maritime tracking platforms and onboard surveillance systems, including access to vessel-related monitoring data and CCTV feeds. This activity has been assessed as supporting real-world military targeting by providing situational awareness and near-real-time intelligence on maritime assets. Imperial Kitten has also been described as rapidly standing up campaign infrastructure in response to conflict flashpoints, indicating planning cycles synchronized with geopolitical events. Across reporting, the actor’s tradecraft includes phishing, social engineering, malware delivery, persistent command-and-control, reconnaissance, and data collection from compromised systems. Its operations are consistent with Iranian intelligence priorities, including espionage, dissident monitoring, and support to broader state objectives.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
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10 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
5 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
10 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Iranian hacking group described as synchronizing planning or tasking cycles with geopolitical conflict flashpoints, in the context of cyberattacks including reconnaissance, recruitment, defacement, data theft, data dumps, phishing, and malware delivery.
IRGC-linked espionage/dissident-monitoring actor using phishing and Android exploitation with cloud-hosted C2; reported targeting includes US election accounts, Israeli NGOs, and Israel’s tech/transportation sectors.
IRGC-linked social engineering operations targeting Israeli transportation and logistics.
Iran-linked espionage actor (IRGC-affiliated per the text) with activity overlapping Pyroxene’s supply-chain/industrial targeting.
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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.
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