Threat actor
Avalanche
Last fetched
Avalanche is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Avalanche, also known as Lavina-Pulse, is a Russian big data surveillance and online manipulation tool founded by Andrei Masalovich, a former KGB agent turned YouTube influencer. The platform provides web scraping and surveillance on behalf of its clients, gathering data from social networks, private groups, and niche forums to track and analyze individuals and organizations. Avalanche's clients include Russian intelligence agencies (FSB and GRU), energy giants like Rosatom, Rosneft, and Gazprom, and regimes in countries such as Vietnam, Myanmar, and Nicaragua. The tool has been used to monitor environmental activists, journalists, NGOs, and political dissidents. More than 100 accounts on Facebook and Instagram were linked to its services, according to a report by Meta.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Avalanche in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Avalanche today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Avalanche has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/03/21/andrei-masalovich-avalanche-russia-cambridge-analytica/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2022/12/16/surveillance-for-hire-industry-continues-to-thrive-says-meta/
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/15/meta-facebook-owner-warns-spyware-social-media
- https://cyberscoop.com/meta-surveillance-for-hire-government-action/
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Related pages
Pivot from Avalanche into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.