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Avathon

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Avathon is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.

Description

Avathon, formerly known as SparkCognition, markets its Visual AI Advisor as a tool for real-time surveillance and monitoring, using existing CCTV infrastructure to track, analyze and predict behavior. SparkCognition has connections to controversial lobbying efforts, revealed in the scandal involving retired U.S General John Allen and his undisclosed financial ties to Qatar. Court filings revealed that Allen, while working with Qatari officials, sought to advance the interests of companies he was affiliated with, including SparkCognition. As a board member of SparkCognition, Allen reportedly used his position to promote the company's AI tools and services during his interactions with Qatari officials. SparkCognition's Visual AI Advisor is deployed across over 130,000 cameras in 16 countries. The company's SkyGrid technology is installed in over 78,000 registered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) across more than 190 countries.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Avathon in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Avathon today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Avathon has no infrastructure.

References

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Related pages

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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 25
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Techniques 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 1000
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Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.


MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25
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