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Infrastructure Destruction Squad

Last fetched

Infrastructure Destruction Squad is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques and also known as 1 other name.

Also known as

Dark Engine

Description

Dark Engine has emerged as a significant threat actor targeting industrial control systems and SCADA systems in sectors such as metallurgy and food processing. The group has conducted multiple ICS-targeted incidents, with a pronounced operational surge in June 2025. Additionally, Dark Engine is involved in a campaign that embeds fraudulent CAPTCHA prompts into legitimate WordPress sites, utilizing SEO poisoning to harvest login credentials. Reports also indicate a data leak from Dark Engine that exposed sensitive phone data in the U.S.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Infrastructure Destruction Squad in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Infrastructure Destruction Squad today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Infrastructure Destruction Squad has no infrastructure.

References

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Related pages

Pivot from Infrastructure Destruction Squad 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 25
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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 1000
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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 25
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