Threat actor
Oxygen Software
Last fetched
Oxygen Software is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Oxygen Software, a Russia-based company, develops mobile forensics tools marketed under its U.S branch, Oxygen Forensics. These tools are primarily deployed by government agencies and are widely used for surveillance purposes. Their capabilities include extracting vast amounts of data from mobile devices, such as personal messages, call logs, location data, and other sensitive information. Governments, particularly in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, have reportedly used them to monitor activists, journalists, and political dissidents. In the U.S, its tools are used by the U.S Army, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), alongside other government agencies. According to an investigation by Gizmodo, U.S. school districts are also amongst its users. For example, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD in Texas confirmed using Oxygen Forensics' tools to extract data from students' phones for "evidentiary purposes." Oxygen Software’s tools are often sold through regional resellers, such as Softline, which has offices in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Oxygen Software in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Oxygen Software today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Oxygen Software has no infrastructure.
References
- https://theintercept.com/2016/10/31/fbis-go-hackers/
- https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/22_st_0222_Test%20Results%20for%20Mobile%20Device%20Acquisition%20Tool-Oxygen%20Forensic%20Detective%20v13.6.0.47.pdf
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/08/30/russian-hackers-help-us-with-encryption-nightmare/
- https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/schools-are-using-law-enforcement-grade-phone-hacking-tech-on-students
- https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393
- https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/archive/docs/Commonwealth_of_Surveillance_States_ENG_1.pdf
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Queries
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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
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