Threat actor
Citadel
Last fetched
Citadel is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Citadel is involved in Russia's telecom surveillance industry, creating and supplying monitoring and data interception tools. The company has strong connections to the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia. It also operates through various subsidiaries that provide different aspects of telecommunications and surveillance technology. It is recognized as one of the largest providers of SORM (System for Operative Investigative Activities) technologies.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Citadel in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Citadel today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Citadel has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/technology/russia-ukraine-surveillance-tech.html
- https://cepa.org/article/russia-exports-digital-surveillance-despite-sanctions/
- https://eurasianet.org/russia-spyware-firms-looking-to-export-surveillance-technology-to-central-asia-report
- https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/NK-NEvGYSihKP92v2srzH8dxu/
- https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/tracking-deployment-russian-surveillance-technologies-central-asia-latin-america
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Related pages
Pivot from Citadel 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.