Cutting Kitten
Aliases: ITsecTeam
- First seen
- 2012-01-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- IR
- Primary motivation
- ideology
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- Denial of service
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:49:57
Targeted industries: financial-services government-and-public-sector
Targeted regions: country_code:us
Context
One of the threat actors responsible for the denial of service attacks against U.S in 2012–2013. Three individuals associated with the group—believed to be have been working on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—were indicted by the Justice Department in 2016.
Related threat objects
- OilRig (threat-actor)
- Clever Kitten (threat-actor)
- CHRYSENE (threat-actor)
- Cleaver (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- cfr.org — Itsecteam (report)
- justice.gov — Download (report)