Magic Kitten
Aliases: Group 42, VOYEUR
- First seen
- 2008-11-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- IR
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:50:05
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector media-and-entertainment
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:il country_code:sa
Context
Earliest activity back to November 2008. An established group of cyber attackers based in Iran, who carried on several campaigns in 2013, including a series of attacks targeting political dissidents and those supporting Iranian political opposition.
Reports & references
- web.archive.org — 330401 (report)
- carnegieendowment.org — Iran S Cyber Ecosystem Who Are Threat Actors Pub 75140 (report)