- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- Iran(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0629 · ababil-of-minab
What it is
Ababil of Minab is an emerging pro-Iranian hacktivist group with a limited public profile and little verifiable prior activity in threat intelligence reporting. The group claims responsibility for a cyberattack and allegedly possesses administrative access to targeted systems. Their pro-Iran messaging and targeting of a major US public transit authority align with known patterns of Iranian-aligned actors targeting US critical infrastructure. The use of escalatory language suggests potential for further activity.
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de