- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- Iran(high confidence)
- Sponsor
- State-sponsored
- Motivation
- Espionage; Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2007–2016
- Status
- Dormant
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0306 · infy
IranWhat it is
美人鱼组织（APT-C-07），来自于中东的境外APT组织，已持续活跃了9年。 主要针对政府机构进行网络间谍活动，以窃取敏感信息为目的，已经证实有针对丹麦外交部的攻击。
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Qihoo 360
- APT-C-07
- Operations
- Operation Mermaid
- Other names
- Foudre, Infy, Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia
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
Targets
- Countries
- Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Syria, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States
- Sectors
- Activists, Civil society, Government, Private sector
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Agent.btz
- Backdoor.Oldrea
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de
- Qihoo 360 apt.360.net