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Azazel

Azazel

ID: 28bbdb176d1c21e6243f132819364b01
Cybercrime Defacement Operator
Threat types: Hacktivism, Defacement, Intrusion
Mexico
Updated: 2026-03-31
Created: 2026-03-27
Progress: 70% Completeness: 61% Freshness: 90%
Operation zone: —
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MITRE ATT&CK®
confidence: medium
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Azazel is a cluster-linked actor-persona associated with Chronus Team, a Latin America-focused intrusion and defacement ecosystem targeting public institutions and symbolic web-facing assets. Public evidence currently supports relationship mapping and public participation more strongly than deep individual technical attribution.


Technique Technique name Tactics Evidence
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application TA0001
  • 2026-03-28 — Public reporting describes Chronus Team as targeting exposed public-sector systems and weak Internet-facing services in Latin America. · ref
T1491.001 Internal Defacement TA0040
  • 2026-03-30 — A publicly reachable compromised page displayed 'HACKED BY CHRONUS TEAM' branding and listed Azazel among associated handles, consistent with website defacement behavior. · ref
T1585.001 Social Media Accounts TA0042
  • 2024-02-24 — INFERENCE (confidence: medium): public reporting on Telegram-based alliance behavior supports use of social communication surfaces for coordination, recruitment, or propaganda around collaborative hacktivist operations. · ref
T1583.006 Web Services TA0042
  • 2026-03-28 — INFERENCE (confidence: medium): recurring public claim and leak activity implies dependence on externally hosted public communication or distribution surfaces. · ref
Strategic Intelligence
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Last updated: 2026-03-31T03:47:27+00:00

Azazel - Actor-persona operating inside the broader Chronus Team ecosystem

Classification: TLP:WHITE - Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) / Limited Human Intelligence (HUMINT)

Category: Hacktivist / intrusion and defacement actor-persona within Chronus Team - Origin: INFERENCE (confidence: medium): likely Mexico-centered cluster context; individual origin not confirmed

Author: iQBlack CTI Team


Executive Summary

Azazel is assessed as an actor-persona operating inside the broader Chronus Team ecosystem rather than as a standalone threat brand. Publicly observable evidence links the name to collaborative defacement activity and to the public-facing branding of Chronus Team operations, while available open reporting does not yet support a rich, separate biography or an independently documented infrastructure stack.


Current confidence is medium-low for identity-level judgments and medium for the assessment that Azazel functions as an active member or visible participant in Chronus Team operations. The available pattern fits a loose hacktivist / intrusion cluster where individual handles appear in defacement signatures, propaganda channels, or public operation branding while operational access, exploitation, and leak handling may be distributed unevenly across the cluster.

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Executive Analyst Brief for CISO — Azazel

Classification: Unclassified / Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — TLP:WHITE

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Hunting Playbook — Azazel / Chronus Team-linked Web Defacement Pattern


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Last updated: 2026-03-31T03:50:51+00:00

IOC Appendix — Azazel

Classification: Unclassified / Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — TLP:WHITE

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OSINT Library — Azazel


2026-03-27 — iQBlack — “Chronus Team: an emerging intrusion-and-leak actor focused on Mexico, with signs of expansion toward Argentina”

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SOCMINT integrated: 0/0
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