Threat actor
ICOMM
Last fetched
ICOMM is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
ICOMM Media & Tech, a subsidiary of Hanoi Telecom Corporation (HTC), won a contract worth VND 5.6 billion ($225,000) from Ho Chi Minh City to deploy SocialBeat, an AI-powered social media monitor. The software is capable of processing billions of data points daily, drawing from over 20 million social media accounts, and has been widely adopted by government bodies. Over the years, ICOMM has won numerous state contracts for surveillance purposes, including deals with the Ministry of Labour and the Vietnamese Fatherland Front. Led by Bui Ngoc Trung, ICOMM operates under HTC, one of Vietnam's private telecommunications firms.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for ICOMM in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to ICOMM today — this states the absence of a published link, not that ICOMM has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.intelligenceonline.com/international-dealmaking/2024/03/20/icomm-spearheading-vietnam-s-internet-surveillance-effort,110193801-art
- https://opengovasia.com/2024/02/29/social-beat-public-sentiment-management-in-ho-chi-minh-city/
- https://fulcrum.sg/vietnams-social-listening-programme-big-brother-looming-over-ho-chi-minh-city/
- https://icomm.vn/
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Related pages
Pivot from ICOMM 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 25Run yourself →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 1000Run yourself →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 25Run yourself →Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.