APT ATLAS

Atlas Actors147 Names471 Sectors40 Requirements480

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Atlas Actors147 Names471 Sectors40 Requirements480

Nemesis Kitten (aka BANISHED KITTEN, Mint Sandstorm (overlap)) · APT Atlas

Actors/Nation-state / APT/Asia

Nemesis Kitten

APTIR · Iran

AKA BANISHED KITTEN · Mint Sandstorm (overlap) · Phosphorus

Mandiant: UNC2448Microsoft: DEV-0270Secureworks: COBALT MIRAGE

IRGC-aligned cluster opportunistically deploying ransomware.

Targets10

Sectors12

Threat types1

GIRs covered0/480

Active since2020

QUICK FACTS

TypeNation-state / APT

OriginIran

First seen2020

Type (verbatim)nation-state APT

GIR coverage0/480

TTPs0

Targets10

Sectors12

Last reviewed2026-07-29

Also tracked as

4 vendor names · 3 other aliases

Open Rosetta Stone

CrowdStrike

Nemesis Kitten

Mandiant

UNC2448

Microsoft

DEV-0270

Secureworks

COBALT MIRAGE

UNATTRIBUTED ALIASESBANISHED KITTENMint Sandstorm (overlap)Phosphorus

Victimology

Geographic footprint · 10 countries

origin · Irantargeted countries · 10

ASIA · 5

United Arab Emirates · Israel · Iran · Kuwait · Saudi Arabia

EUROPE · 3

Albania · France · Ukraine

AMERICAS · 2

Canada · United States

Sectors targeted

12 of 40

Government100 actors Defense72 actors Aerospace59 actors Aviation22 actors Financial Services74 actors Technology60 actors Telecom72 actors NGOs & Dissidents56 actors Energy / Utilities59 actors Education & Research62 actors Manufacturing (man)50 actors Legal & Professional18 actors

Tactics, techniques, procedures

Threat types + MITRE ATT&CK mapping

THREAT TYPES

RAN · Ransomware

MITRE ATT&CK · 0 techniques

No TTPs mapped yet.

GIR coverage

0 / 480 requirements satisfied

Open matrix

No GIRs mapped yet for this actor.

Open data

Machine-readable exports of this profile

JSON · RESTActor recordFull profile via the public v1 API STIX 2.1Intrusion-set bundleDeterministic ids · techniques + targeted countries ATT&CK NAVIGATORTechnique layer0 techniques · layer format 4.5

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