FORENSIA

THREAT_ACTOR · G1009

Moses Staff

Also known as: Moses Staff, DEV-0500, Marigold Sandstorm

Profile

Moses Staff is a suspected Iranian threat group that has primarily targeted Israeli companies since at least September 2021. Moses Staff openly stated their motivation in attacking Israeli companies is to cause damage by leaking stolen sensitive data and encrypting the victim's networks without a ransom demand. Security researchers assess Moses Staff is politically motivated, and has targeted government, finance, travel, energy, manufacturing, and utility companies outside of Israel as well, including those in Italy, India, Germany, Chile, Turkey, the UAE, and the US.

MITRE ATT&CK ↗

Techniques

12 ATT&CK techniques attributed to this actor.

Software

4 malware/tools attributed to this actor.

PsExecPyDCryptDCSrvStrifeWater

Related corpus activity

8,944 indicators EXHIBIT techniques this actor uses. This is a shared-technique signal, not a first-party attribution to Moses Staff.

IndicatorTypeFamilySevSrc
cve-2020-17456cve851
cve-2026-0740cve851
cve-2016-15047cve854
cve-2021-4045cve851
cve-2017-18377cve851
cve-2026-1969cve851
cve-2026-22584cve852
cve-2025-11837cve852
cve-2018-8007cve851
cve-2023-44976cveransomware852
cve-2020-22658cve852
cve-2026-4368cveransomware851
cve-2021-25646cve851
cve-2021-29441cve851
cve-2025-66478cve852
cve-2025-0921cve852
cve-2021-27076cve851
cve-2013-3307cve852
cve-2025-34054cve854
cve-2024-1781cve851
cve-2014-2321cve851
cve-2026-3102cve853
cve-2016-5681cve852
cve-2020-22653cve852
cve-2025-2492cve852
cve-2025-34117cve851
cve-2022-47945cve851
cve-2013-7471cve851
cve-2025-23304cve852
cve-2026-3844cve851

Showing the top 30 by severity of 8,944.