Pioneer Kitten APT Sells Corporate Network Access

2020-09-01 13:35

An APT group known as Pioneer Kitten, linked to Iran, has been spotted selling corporate-network credentials on hacker forums.

Pioneer Kitten is a hacker group that specializes in infiltrating corporate networks using open-source tools to compromise remote external services.

Pioneer Kitten's work is related to other groups either sponsored or run by the Iranian government, which were previously seen hacking VPNs and planting backdoors in companies around the world.

Pioneer Kitten, which has been around since 2017, does not appear to be directly operated by the Iranian government but is rather sympathetic to the regime and likely a private contractor, Orleans noted.

Pioneer Kitten's targets are North American and Israeli organizations in various sectors that represent some type of intelligence interest to the Iranian government, according to CrowdStrike.

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