Threat actor
Protei
Last fetched
Protei is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Protei is a Russia-based company that offers an extensive suite of telecommunications technologies with significant surveillance capabilities, enabling the monitoring of user communications, locations, and behaviors. Protei equipment is used by a range of telecom companies worldwide for logging internet usage as well as for blocking websites. It also offers "Smart City" related technologies for mass surveillance purposes. The company has offices in Jordan and Estonia and partners with major firms including Nokia and Oracle.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Protei in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Protei today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Protei has no infrastructure.
References
- https://eurasianet.org/russia-spyware-firms-looking-to-export-surveillance-technology-to-central-asia-report
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/technology/russia-ukraine-surveillance-tech.html
- https://cepa.org/article/russia-exports-digital-surveillance-despite-sanctions/
- https://www.protei.me/protei-modernize-zongs-roaming-platforms/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210114143200/https://agentura.ru/english/projects/Project_ID/justbusiness/
- https://citizenlab.ca/2023/01/uncovering-irans-mobile-legal-intercept-system/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201129133217/https://protei.com/clients
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230531234831/https://protei.com/solutions/smart-city
- https://www.protei.me/#customers
- https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/tracking-deployment-russian-surveillance-technologies-central-asia-latin-america
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Related pages
Pivot from Protei 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.