Ajax Security Team

APT / StateG0130 ↗
Origin🇮🇷 Irã
Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)6
SourceMITRE ATT&CK
State sponsor: Iran (Islamic Republic of)Attribution confidence: 50%Target categories: Military, Civil society
Targeted regions: United States · Iranian internet activists
Also known as:AjaxTMFlying KittenGroup 26Operation Saffron RoseOperation Woolen-GoldfishRocket KittenSaffron RoseSaffronRoseSayad

About the group

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.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity17
Impact: High
T1566.001T1204.002T1555.003ENTRYInitial accessSpearphishingAttachmentEXECExecutionMalicious FileCREDCredential accessCredentials fromWeb BrowsersCOLLCollectionKeylogging

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 6

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Exploited vulnerabilities

No CVEs attributed to this group in public sources (MITRE ATT&CK). Absence of attribution does not mean absence of activity.

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