Threat actor
Passware
Last fetched
Passware is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Passware is a U.S-Russian cybersecurity company that develops encryption-cracking tools that have been widely used by U.S. government agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), since at least 2010. Passware's software can bypass encryption on systems like TrueCrypt and is designed to be user-friendly, even for non-technical users. It is often bundled with other forensic tools, such as those from Oxygen Forensics, for use by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The company's primary engineering office is in Moscow, Russia.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Passware in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Passware today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Passware has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/08/30/russian-hackers-help-us-with-encryption-nightmare/
- https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/may/17/social-media-surveillance-growing/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/passware-software-makes-windows-computers-accessible-to-law-enforcement-exposing-login-passwords-in-minutes-170039676.html
- https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/1774531/Selth-Post-coup-intelligence-in-Myanmar.pdf
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Related pages
Pivot from Passware 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.