Threat actor
Scattered Canary
Last fetched
Scattered Canary is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
When the first member of Scattered Canary, who, for the purposes of this report, we call Alpha, began his operations, he was a lone wolf—working mostly Craigslist scams as he learned the tricks of the trade from a mentor. However, within a few years, he had honed his craft enough to expand into romance scams, where he met his first “employee,” Beta. Once they had secured enough mules via their romance scams to launder their stolen money, they shifted from targeting individuals to targeting enterprises, and the group’s BEC operation was born.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Scattered Canary in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Scattered Canary today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Scattered Canary has no infrastructure.
References
- https://cofense.com/blog/gift-card-fraud-ecosystem-shifts-what-paxfuls-closing-means-for-business-email-compromise/
- https://static.fortra.com/agari/pdfs/guide/ag-scattered-canary-gd.pdf
- https://www.agari.com/blog/covid-19-unemployment-fraud-cares-act?_gl=1%2Ayzg6ns%2A_ga%2AMTkyMzIyOTI4MC4xNjk2MjUyMDA2%2A_ga_NHMHGJWX49%2AMTY5NjI1MjAwNS4xLjAuMTY5NjI1MjAwNS42MC4wLjA.&utm_source=press-release&utm_medium=prnewswire&utm_campaign=scattered20
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Related pages
Pivot from Scattered Canary 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.