Threat actor
DEA Aviation
Last fetched
DEA Aviation is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
DEA Aviation Ltd is a UK-based provider of airborne technologies to various clients, including Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, and the UK Ministry of Defence. Their products include aircrafts equipped with high-fidelity sensors and surveillance systems to collect real-time data. This is used by Frontex to monitor land and maritime borders, targeting migrants particularly in regions like the Mediterranean and off the Libyan coast.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for DEA Aviation in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to DEA Aviation today — this states the absence of a published link, not that DEA Aviation has no infrastructure.
References
- https://abolishfrontex.org/blog/2023/10/02/new-frontex-contracts-for-aerial-surveillance-flights/
- https://www.statewatch.org/news/2022/june/frontex-big-spending-on-aerial-surveillance/
- https://www.ses.com/sites/default/files/2021-06/Close-Up-with-DEA-Aviation-Ltd-Handbook.pdf
- https://www.borderforensics.org/investigations/airborne-complicity/
- https://www.africaintelligence.com/north-africa/2022/02/23/dea-aviation-doing-good-frontex-business-off-libyan-coast,109735983-art
- https://abolishfrontex.org/blog/2021/08/23/frontex-awards-e84-5-million-in-aerial-surveillance-contracts/
- https://www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance--interception/2023/11/30/eu-changes-aerial-reconnaissance-supplier-in-sarajevo,110113568-art
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Related pages
Pivot from DEA Aviation 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.