Fox Kitten
Also tracked as UNC757, Parisite, Pioneer Kitten, RUBIDIUM, Lemon Sandstorm
Fox Kitten is threat actor with a suspected nexus to the Iranian government that has been active since at least 2017 against entities in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Australia, and North America. Fox Kitten has targeted multiple industrial verticals including oil and gas, technology, government, defense, healthcare, manufacturing, and engineering.
- Documented techniques
- 41
- Assessed origin
- Iran
- First seen
- 2017
- 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.
resource development2
initial access1
execution4
persistence2
privilege escalation1
credential access5
discovery7
lateral movement5
collection5
command and control4
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
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.