# Mirage Kitten

> As of 2026-07-28, Mirage Kitten is a Iran-nexus threat actor tracked by Threadlinqs Intelligence across 1 threat spanning apt.

- **Nation:** Iran
- **Tracked threats:** 1
- **Categories:** APT
- **As of:** 2026-07-28

## Tracked threats

- [Mirage Kitten (UNC1549/Smoke Sandstorm/Nimbus Manticore) Deploys New NightLedger Backdoor and BridgeHead/ArcBridge WebSocket Tunnelers Against Middle East and Africa](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-1741) — HIGH

## Full data

Infrastructure, IOC values and detection queries (Splunk SPL / Microsoft KQL / Sigma) require the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier): https://intel.threadlinqs.com/mcp

Canonical: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/actor/Mirage%20Kitten