Cuboid Sandstorm
Aliases: DEV-0228, IMPERIAL KITTEN
- First seen
- 2021-07-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- IR
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:12:29
Targeted industries: defense-and-aerospace energy-and-utilities professional-services
Targeted regions: country_code:il
Context
Cuboid Sandstorm is an Iranian threat actor that targeted an Israel-based IT company in July 2021. They gained access to the company's network and used it to compromise downstream customers in the defense, energy, and legal sectors in Israel. The group also utilized custom implants, including a remote access Trojan disguised as RuntimeBroker.exe or svchost.exe, to establish persistence on victim hosts.
Reports & references
- Microsoft — Iranian Targeting Of It Sector On The Rise (report)
- raw.githubusercontent.com — Microsoftmapping (report)
- Microsoft — Microsoft Threat Actor Naming (report)