Ajax Security Team
Also tracked as Operation Woolen-Goldfish, AjaxTM, Rocket Kitten, Flying Kitten, Operation Saffron Rose
Ajax Security Team is a group that has been active since at least 2010 and believed to be operating out of Iran. By 2014 Ajax Security Team transitioned from website defacement operations to malware-based cyber espionage campaigns targeting the US defense industrial base and Iranian users of anti-censorship technologies.
- Documented techniques
- 6
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2010
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
execution1
credential access1
collection1
command and control1
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.