Lookout and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have discovered Dark Caracal, a persistent and prolific actor, who at the time of writing is believed to be administered out of a building belonging to the Lebanese General Security Directorate in Beirut. At present, we have knowledge of hundreds of gigabytes of exfiltrated data, in 21+ countries, across thousands of victims. Stolen data includes enterprise intellectual property and personally identifiable information.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| OSINT | G0070 |
No IOCs extracted yet from reports naming this actor.
Every report in the Global Intel Library that names Dark Caracal, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
No reports in the Lore library name this actor yet.
Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to Dark Caracal. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
| Type | Indicator | Linked by | Seen | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| md5_hash | 42e3b99c78c70551642b4e7a568c3898 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha1_hash | a027801b9481b5e24c8773efaa7957dd67a69384 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha256_hash | 84cd8bf6fa43ffc59f3fb3046933be0c650ef063a106b92b020580b51bdc9288 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| md5_hash | 02c0815166a1a7820b8783dbaa6fc814 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha1_hash | c0a480dde9eb64b82e5ba42502855eb438af8279 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha256_hash | 4b9d3d9f7ee68e9352753333cf67358f334f110c78280b5df3c1b7fa40dcb5e9 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| md5_hash | 7972c7b003f41d914dd1fcb98dbdfaba | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha1_hash | 2b22a121799137fd7b3f3669418271fd6c7a5e74 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-20 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| md5_hash | 4bda9f9b4bdc277b6b2af90d9149dfc4 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha1_hash | 7b38d7c4451b2955e3719f2ca9b050e0ec1927f3 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha256_hash | 30be992d1c779f119e2e52711d6966289de06e24fba306050264d3b10301de0f | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| md5_hash | d91435c7250f01daa3dc6ddbd0bc9df0 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha1_hash | 6d60f55c781940ce29af3d8c154d819620e4c028 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha256_hash | 57a23842ad1e35d74a7668ab2112de54d92b2a70f6949d7f892002aeb5d69db6 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| md5_hash | 10497e0acd87edd2195faab5b931a02d | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha1_hash | e08b985978d82d6091be4822aa5f7c1f96a96ccd | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
| sha256_hash | 44d84b6127107691b340abdfc068f1966ab2054169fbeac29c62fa58a7ae13f0 | malware family "CrossRAT" | 2026-10-19 | abuse.ch ThreatFox |
Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy and MITRE ATT&CK.