Caracal Kitten
Aliases: APT-Q-58
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- organization
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:08:23
Targeted industries: education-and-nonprofits government-and-public-sector media-and-entertainment
Context
Caracal Kitten is an APT group that has been targeting activists associated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party. They employ a mobile remote access Trojan to gain unauthorized access to victims' devices. The group disguises their malware as legitimate mobile apps, tricking users into installing them and granting the hackers access to their personal data.
Reports & references
- deform.co — Hacker Group Caracal Kitten Targets Kdp Activists With Malware (report)
- ctfiot.com — 138538 (report)