FORENSIA

THREAT_ACTOR · G1013

Metador

Also known as: Metador

Profile

Metador is a suspected cyber espionage group that was first reported in September 2022. Metador has targeted a limited number of telecommunication companies, internet service providers, and universities in the Middle East and Africa. Security researchers named the group Metador based on the "I am meta" string in one of the group's malware samples and the expectation of Spanish-language responses from C2 servers.

MITRE ATT&CK ↗

Techniques

9 ATT&CK techniques attributed to this actor.

Software

2 malware/tools attributed to this actor.

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Related corpus activity

9,573 indicators EXHIBIT techniques this actor uses. This is a shared-technique signal, not a first-party attribution to Metador.

IndicatorTypeFamilySevSrc
cve-2021-4045cve851
cve-2026-1969cve851
cve-2025-68670cve852
cve-2023-44976cveransomware852
cve-2026-4368cveransomware851
cve-2021-29441cve851
cve-2026-22584cve852
cve-2025-11837cve852
cve-2024-1781cve851
cve-2026-3102cve853
cve-2020-22653cve852
cve-2025-34117cve851
cve-2013-7471cve851
cve-2021-25646cve851
cve-2025-66478cve852
cve-2025-0921cve852
cve-2021-27076cve851
cve-2013-3307cve852
cve-2016-15047cve854
cve-2025-34054cve854
cve-2018-8007cve851
cve-2014-2321cve851
cve-2020-17456cve851
cve-2016-5681cve852
cve-2020-22658cve852
cve-2025-2492cve852
cve-2025-23304cve852
cve-2017-18377cve851
cve-2022-47945cve851
cve-2026-0740cve851

Showing the top 30 by severity of 9,573.