Untangling the tangle: breaking down the tools of the Hacking Cat group

The Hacking Cat group has rapidly evolved from web defacement to sophisticated data-wiping and ransomware attacks using custom, AI-assisted malware—such as Gorilla RAT and Monkey Ransomware—while collaborating with other hacktivist collectives, making attribution increasingly difficult and signaling a shift toward more agile, modular, and widely shared offensive toolkits in the threat landscape.