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POLONIUMG1005 state

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aka POLONIUM, Plaid Rain, UNC4453, GREATRIFT, INCENDIARY JACKAL

Last updated: 2026-08-20

0attributed CVEs
11ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active

About this actor

[POLONIUM](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1005) is a Lebanon-based group that has primarily targeted Israeli organizations, including critical manufacturing, information technology, and defense industry companies, since at least February 2022. Security researchers assess [POLONIUM](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1005) has coordinated their operations with multiple actors affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), based on victim overlap as well as common techniques and tooling.(Citation: Microsoft POLONIUM June 2022)

Source: MITRE ATT&CK

Names & naming systems

Each vendor coins its own name for the same actor. Where a name follows a known scheme we attribute it; the rest are listed honestly as unclassified.

MITRE ATT&CKG-number catalogue id

G1005

Microsoftweather-system names

Plaid Rain

CrowdStrikenation-animal names

INCENDIARY JACKAL

MandiantUNC uncategorised cluster

UNC4453

Unclassifiedno scheme matched

POLONIUMGREATRIFT

How we know this

Data origin
MITRE ATT&CK Imported from the MITRE ATT&CK STIX bundle as an intrusion-set object.
Techniques
MITRE ATT&CK STIX mappings — 11 ATT&CK techniques on file.
Named victims
None on file.

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Activity timeline

No activity events recorded.

Profile

CVERiskCVSSEPSSPublishedProducts
No attributed CVEs.

Mitigating controls (NIST 800-53)

ControlTechniques coveredCoverage
SC-77 / 1164%
AC-46 / 1155%
CA-75 / 1145%
CM-65 / 1145%
CM-75 / 1145%
SI-45 / 1145%
AC-34 / 1136%
SI-34 / 1136%
AC-63 / 1127%
CM-23 / 1127%
AC-22 / 1118%
AC-202 / 1118%
CA-32 / 1118%
SA-82 / 1118%
SC-282 / 1118%

Co-occurring actors

None.

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