Threat actor
LYCEUM
Last fetched
LYCEUM is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques and also known as 8 other names.
Also known as
COBALT LYCEUM, HEXANE, UNC1530, Spirlin, MYSTICDOME, siamesekitten, Chrono Kitten, Storm-0133
Description
Lyceum is an Iranian APT group that has been active since at least 2014. They primarily target Middle Eastern governments and organizations in the energy and telecommunications sectors. Lyceum is known for using cyber espionage techniques and has been linked to other Iranian threat groups such as APT34. They have developed and deployed malware families like Shark and Milan, and have been observed using DNS tunneling and HTTPfor command and control communication.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for LYCEUM in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to LYCEUM today — this states the absence of a published link, not that LYCEUM has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.secureworks.com/blog/lyceum-takes-center-stage-in-middle-east-campaign
- https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/cobalt-lyceum
- https://www.prevailion.com/latest-targets-of-cyber-group-lyceum/
- https://www.clearskysec.com/siamesekitten/
- https://vblocalhost.com/uploads/VB2021-Kayal-etal.pdf
- https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/tool-of-first-resort-israel-hamas-war-cyber.pdf
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Related pages
Pivot from LYCEUM 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.