Threat actor
Shoghi Communications
Last fetched
Shoghi Communications is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Shoghi, an Indian cyberintelligence firm founded by Harish Gupta, rose to prominence in the late 2000s under the leadership of Anant Bindal, a businessman from a powerful family in India. The company secured a large $200 million contract to supply India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), with advanced interception technologies, including IMSI-catchers and COMINT tools. The company became internationally recognized when it was named in WikiLeaks' "Spy Files" as part of a global surveillance industry catering to governments and intelligence agencies. Bindal later relocated to the UAE, where he founded Stratign, a Dubai-based firm that mirrors Shoghi's model of distributing and integrating interception solutions sourced from other companies.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Shoghi Communications in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Shoghi Communications today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Shoghi Communications has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/the-two-men-behind-india-s-secret-surveillance-industry-111120300053_1.html
- https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-governments-listening-to-us/article2678501.ece
- https://www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance--interception/2021/05/20/indian-interceptions-mogul-anant-bindal-behind-stratign-in-dubai,109667560-evg
- https://sundayguardianlive.com/news/defence-technology-supplier-blacklisted-earlier-back-business
- https://www.militaryaerospace.com/directory/communications-and-peripherals/communications-equipment-military-telecommunications/company/14060983/shoghi-communications
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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.