Threat actor
Narus
Last fetched
Narus is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Narus, a subsidiary of Boeing, has sold its NarusInsight technology, used for mass surveillance of internet traffic, to several countries with known human rights violations, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Capabilities include Deep Packet Inspection equipment (DPI), a content-filtering technology that allows network managers to inspect, track and target content from users of the Internet and mobile phones, as it passes through routers on the information superhighway. Narus was was founded in 1997 by Israeli "security experts" to create and sell mass surveillance systems for governments and large corporate clients.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Narus in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Narus today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Narus has no infrastructure.
References
- https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/surveillance/2008/11/11/narus-security-through-surveillance/
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-us-corporations-role_b_815281
- https://jsis.washington.edu/news/freedom-watch-veil-saudi-cyberspace/
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/big-brother-meets-big-data-the-next-wave-in-net-surveillance-tech/
- https://thenextweb.com/news/how-far-gadhafi-went-to-monitor-libyas-internet-activity
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904199404576538721260166388
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Related pages
Pivot from Narus 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.