Threat actor
FiberHome
Last fetched
FiberHome is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
FiberHome, officially known as Nanjing FiberHome StarrySky Communication Development Company Ltd., develops spyware for use by the Chinese authorities. Its Fengcai app is forcibly installed on tourists' smartphones at border crossings in the East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang by China) region. This spyware collects extensive personal data, including text messages, contacts, call logs, calendar entries, and installed apps, and transmits it to remote servers for analysis. The app also scans for content flagged as suspicious, such as religious materials, writings in Arabic, or documents related to the Dalai Lama, among other flagged items.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for FiberHome in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to FiberHome today — this states the absence of a published link, not that FiberHome has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/technology/china-xinjiang-app.html
- https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/xinjiang-fengcai-spyware.html
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/07/02/134307/chinese-border-guards-are-putting-a-surveillance-app-on-tourists-phones/
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/china-is-installing-spyware-on-tourists-phones
- https://diplomatist.com/2020/07/03/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-the-surveillance-strategy-of-china-apps/
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Related pages
Pivot from FiberHome 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.