THREAT_ACTOR · G1041
Sea Turtle
Also known as: Sea Turtle, Teal Kurma, Marbled Dust, Cosmic Wolf, SILICON
Profile
Sea Turtle is a Türkiye-linked threat actor active since at least 2017 performing espionage and service provider compromise operations against victims in Asia, Europe, and North America. Sea Turtle is notable for targeting registrars managing ccTLDs and complex DNS-based intrusions where the threat actor compromised DNS providers to hijack DNS resolution for ultimate victims, enabling Sea Turtle to spoof log in portals and other applications for credential collection.
MITRE ATT&CK ↗Techniques
27 ATT&CK techniques attributed to this actor.
Software
1 malware/tools attributed to this actor.
Related corpus activity
9,917 indicators EXHIBIT techniques this actor uses. This is a shared-technique signal, not a first-party attribution to Sea Turtle.
| Indicator | Type | Family | Sev | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cve-2023-44976 | cve | ransomware | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2026-1969 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2025-11837 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2026-3102 | cve | — | 85 | 3 |
| cve-2025-34117 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2021-29441 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2025-0921 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2013-3307 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2025-34054 | cve | — | 85 | 4 |
| cve-2014-2321 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2020-17456 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2025-2492 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2013-7471 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2021-25646 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2016-5681 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2025-66478 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2026-22584 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2021-27076 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2025-68670 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2016-15047 | cve | — | 85 | 4 |
| cve-2024-1781 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2018-8007 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2022-47945 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2021-4045 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2020-22653 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2020-22658 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2026-4368 | cve | ransomware | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2017-18377 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
| cve-2025-23304 | cve | — | 85 | 2 |
| cve-2026-0740 | cve | — | 85 | 1 |
Showing the top 30 by severity of 9,917.