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Atlas Actors147 Names508 Sectors40 Requirements480

Cotton Sandstorm (aka NEPTUNIUM, Emennet Pasargad) · APT Atlas

Actors/Nation-state / APT/Asia

Cotton Sandstorm

G1009APTIR · Iran

AKA NEPTUNIUM · Emennet Pasargad · MARNANBRIDGE · DEV-0166 · Yellow Candor · Emennet Pasargad Ltd · Aria Sepehr Ayandehsazan · Cyber Flood · Homeland Justice

CrowdStrike: HAYWIRE KITTENMITRE: G1009

Targets10

Sectors13

Threat types1

GIRs covered0/480

Active since2017

QUICK FACTS

TypeNation-state / APT

OriginIran

First seen2017

Type (verbatim)nation-state APT

GIR coverage0/480

TTPs0

Targets10

Sectors13

Last reviewed2026-08-03

Also tracked as

3 vendor names · 9 other aliases

Open Rosetta Stone

CrowdStrike

HAYWIRE KITTEN

Microsoft

Cotton Sandstorm

MITRE

G1009

UNATTRIBUTED ALIASESNEPTUNIUMEmennet PasargadMARNANBRIDGEDEV-0166Yellow CandorEmennet Pasargad LtdAria Sepehr AyandehsazanCyber FloodHomeland Justice

Victimology

Geographic footprint · 10 countries

origin · Irantargeted countries · 10

ASIA · 8

United Arab Emirates · Bahrain · Israel · Iraq · Iran · Lebanon · Palestine · Yemen

EUROPE · 1

France

AMERICAS · 1

United States

Sectors targeted

13 of 40

Government100 actors Financial Services74 actors Technology60 actors Telecom72 actors NGOs & Dissidents56 actors Energy / Utilities59 actors Education & Research62 actors Manufacturing (man)50 actors Media & Journalism49 actors Transportation31 actors Logistics22 actors Hospitality33 actors Maritime24 actors

Tactics, techniques, procedures

Threat types + MITRE ATT&CK mapping

THREAT TYPES

DIS · Disinformation

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

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