iran-cyber-espionage

iran-cyber-espionage is a skill for Claude Code from Liberty91LTD/cti-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (7,841 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to cyber operations linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security, including groups such as APT35 and MuddyWater.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when researching Iranian state-sponsored espionage, disruptive attacks, wiper campaigns, or related hacktivist groups.
Why use it?
It provides background for understanding who these groups are, what they target, and how their campaigns work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when researching Iranian state-sponsored espionage, disruptive attacks, wiper campaigns, or related hacktivist groups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liberty91ltd/cti-skills/iran-cyber-espionage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Liberty91LTD/cti-skills --skill iran-cyber-espionage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Liberty91LTD/cti-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,841 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00094 $0.07841
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.03136
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01568
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00784

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d4e357ef69f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iran-cyber-espionage scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/iran-cyber-espionage/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Iran Cyber Espionage Knowledge Cell

Executive Summary

Iran's state-sponsored cyber operations are conducted primarily by two organizations: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). IRGC-affiliated groups (APT33, APT35/APT42, Nimbus Manticore/UNC1549, Imperial Kitten, CyberAv3ngers) cover espionage against defense, aerospace and policy targets and attacks on operational technology. MOIS-affiliated groups (APT34/OilRig, MuddyWater, Scarred Manticore, Void Manticore, Cavern Manticore) run sustained espionage against government, telecom and IT providers in the Middle East, and, through Void Manticore's Handala Hack persona, destructive and hack-and-leak operations.

Since this cell was seeded, Iranian cyber activity has been shaped by two wars. During the June 2025 Israel-Iran conflict, US agencies warned of possible Iranian activity against US networks but stated they had not seen a coordinated campaign [10]. Iran itself was the victim of destructive attacks claimed by Predatory Sparrow against Bank Sepah and the Nobitex exchange [11][12]. On 28 February 2026 the United States and Israel began a joint offensive against Iran (Operation Epic Fury / Operation Roaring Lion) [13][14]. A ceasefire announced on 7 April 2026 was declared over on 9 July 2026 [14]. This second conflict brought highly disruptive Iranian-linked activity against US organizations: the 11 March 2026 wipe of Stryker Corporation's managed devices, claimed by Handala [15][16][17], and exploitation of internet-exposed PLCs in US water, energy and government facilities [18][19].

Three shifts stand out. First, destructive operations no longer depend on wiper malware: the Stryker incident used the built-in wipe function of a cloud endpoint management platform [17], and Void Manticore also wipes by hand over RDP or with legitimate disk-encryption software [15]. Second, MOIS actors have retooled. MuddyWater moved from broad abuse of remote management tools to a series of custom backdoors, including Rust implants with Telegram command and control [20][21][22][23]. Third, vendors report AI-assisted malware development by MuddyWater, Void Manticore and Nimbus Manticore [15][23][25]. Long-running social engineering by APT35/APT42 and fake-recruiter operations against aerospace and defense continue [24][25][26][27][28]. US law enforcement and sanctions action against Iranian operators resumed in August 2026 [29][30].

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +93 lines · +12 tokens per session d4e357ef69f3
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 4c0dd76eb7c5

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iran-cyber-espionage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Liberty91LTD/cti-skills (36 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 7,841 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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