Threat actor
Fox Kitten
Last fetched
Fox Kitten is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 41 techniques and also known as 7 other names.
Also known as
PIONEER KITTEN, PARISITE, UNC757, Lemon Sandstorm, RUBIDIUM, Parisite, Pioneer Kitten
Description
[Fox Kitten](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0117) 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](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0117) has targeted multiple industrial verticals including oil and gas, technology, government, defense, healthcare, manufacturing, and engineering.(Citation: ClearkSky Fox Kitten February 2020)(Citation: CrowdStrike PIONEER KITTEN August 2020)(Citation: Dragos PARISITE )(Citation: ClearSky Pay2Kitten December 2020)
Techniques by tactic
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Fox Kitten today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Fox Kitten has no infrastructure.
References
- https://youtu.be/pBDu8EGWRC4?t=2492
- https://www.dragos.com/threat/parisite
- https://www.dragos.com/wp-content/uploads/The-ICS-Threat-Landscape.pdf
- https://www.dragos.com/wp-content/uploads/NA-EL-Threat-Perspective-2019.pdf
- https://www.clearskysec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ClearSky-Fox-Kitten-Campaign.pdf
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-says-an-iranian-hacking-group-is-attacking-f5-networking-devices
- https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/who-is-pioneer-kitten
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/iranian-hackers-are-selling-access-to-compromised-companies-on-an-underground-forum
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-259a
- https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0117
- https://www.clearskysec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pay2Kitten.pdf
- https://www.clearskysec.com/fox-kitten/
- https://www.dragos.com/threat/parisite/
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/intelligence/microsoft-threat-actor-naming?view=o365-worldwide
- https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/who-is-pioneer-kitten/
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Related pages
Pivot from Fox Kitten into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.