{
  "id": "ajax-security-team",
  "name": "Ajax Security Team",
  "aliases": [
    "Operation Woolen-Goldfish",
    "AjaxTM",
    "Rocket Kitten",
    "Flying Kitten",
    "Operation Saffron Rose"
  ],
  "domain": "cyber",
  "country": "IRN",
  "category": "Suspected state-linked cyber threat group",
  "status": "tracked",
  "fielded": null,
  "operators": [
    "IRN"
  ],
  "summary": "Ajax Security Team is a group that has been active since at least 2010 and believed to be operating out of Iran. By 2014 Ajax Security Team transitioned from website defacement operations to malware-based cyber espionage campaigns targeting the US defense industrial base and Iranian users of anti-censorship technologies.",
  "specs": [
    {
      "k": "sponsor",
      "v": "Believed to operate from Iran",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g0130"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "active_since",
      "v": 2010,
      "src": [
        "mitre-g0130"
      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "note": "At least 2010"
    },
    {
      "k": "attack_id",
      "v": "G0130",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g0130"
      ],
      "conf": "high"
    },
    {
      "k": "targets",
      "v": "By 2014 Ajax Security Team transitioned from website defacement operations to malware-based cyber espionage campaigns targeting the US defense industrial base and Iranian users of anti-censorship technologies.",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g0130"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "techniques_count",
      "v": 6,
      "src": [
        "mitre-g0130"
      ],
      "conf": "high",
      "note": "ATT&CK v20.1"
    },
    {
      "k": "software",
      "v": "Havij, sqlmap",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g0130"
      ],
      "conf": "high",
      "note": "2 malware and tool entries linked in ATT&CK"
    }
  ],
  "payloads": [],
  "variants": [],
  "art": "cyber",
  "image": null,
  "verified": null,
  "notes": "Ajax Security Team is a group that has been active since at least 2010 and believed to be operating out of Iran. By 2014 Ajax Security Team transitioned from website defacement operations to malware-based cyber espionage campaigns targeting the US defense industrial base and Iranian users of anti-censorship technologies. Description adapted from MITRE ATT&CK®, © The MITRE Corporation, used under the ATT&CK Terms of Use.",
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-08",
      "change": "Entry created from MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v20.1 (group G0130)"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.defensepedia.com/systems/ajax-security-team.html",
  "sources": {
    "mitre-g0130": {
      "title": "Ajax Security Team, Group G0130",
      "publisher": "MITRE ATT&CK",
      "url": "https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0130/",
      "published": "2026-07-31",
      "tier": 2,
      "checked": "2026-11-08"
    }
  }
}