Cyber Threat Actor: ManiAc Naiem
| Actor Type | Location | Known Incidents |
Hacker
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Iran
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1 incident |
|---|
Profile
The threat actor is identified by the alias ManiAc Naiem.
Open‑source context places this individual in Iran.
The alias is associated with the Twitter handle @maniac_naiem.
On 2 October 2014 the account @maniac_naiem published tweet ID 517833605163130880.
In that tweet the actor claimed to have compromised the website 5‑cont.com.
The claim included the extraction of roughly twenty‑one thousand email addresses.
The extracted data were said to be accompanied by their clear‑text passwords.
The tweet served as a public announcement of the breach and the accompanying data dump.
No other technical details about the intrusion method were supplied in the tweet.
The message represents the sole publicly referenced action attributed to ManiAc Naiem in the provided material.
The timestamp of the tweet aligns with the date given for the incident.
The actor’s location and alias are the only demographic facts explicitly stated.
The supplied references do not describe any additional operations or victim sectors linked to the alias.
Consequently, statements about typical targeting, strategic motivations, or preferred tactics remain unsupported by the evidence.
No malware families, exploit kits, or tooling are mentioned in the incident report.
The sources do not connect ManiAc Naiem to any state‑sponsored program, criminal alliance, or broader threat‑intelligence group.
Likewise, no information is offered about the actor’s infrastructure, command‑and‑control mechanisms, or post‑exploitation behavior.
The profile therefore rests exclusively on the confirmed facts of the alias, geographic association, the 2014 5‑cont.com compromise, and the Twitter announcement.
All other facets of the actor’s activity, including possible affiliations or future behavior, are unknown based on the current source set.
Because the evidence is limited to a single public tweet, any extrapolation would constitute speculation and is therefore omitted.
The presented information captures the entirety of what is verifiable from the supplied references.
