Threat actor
Crowdfense
Last fetched
Crowdfense is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Crowdfense, a UAE-based company, purchases software exploits from researchers and reselling them to government agencies. The company operates as a hub for independent researchers, offering some of the industry's highest bounties for exclusive, full-chain exploits targeting platforms such as iOS, Android, Chrome, and Safari. According to Intelligence Online's sources, the UAE and Saudi governments financially backed the firm.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Crowdfense in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Crowdfense today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Crowdfense has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.securityweek.com/company-offering-30-million-for-android-ios-browser-zero-day-exploits/
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/zero-day-shop-opens-the-floodgates-for-people-to-sell-exploits-to-governments/
- https://cyberscoop.com/crowdfense-zero-day-exploit-dubai-uae/
- https://www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance--interception/2024/01/30/shake-up-of-market-for-zero-day-vulnerabilities,110153740-art
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/phones-harder-to-hack-crowdfense-zerodium-buy-router-zero-days-exploits/
- https://www.intelligenceonline.com/international-dealmaking/2018/05/16/emerging-sigint-powers-seek-own-cyber-bounty-hunters,108310461-art
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Related pages
Pivot from Crowdfense 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.