Threat actor
SyTech
Last fetched
SyTech is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
SyTech (Сайтек) is a Russian private IT contractor known for working with Russian intelligence and military agencies, including the FSB (Federal Security Service). The company gained international attention in 2019 when it was hacked by a group called 0v1ru$, which exposed internal documents detailing its involvement in secretive surveillance projects. Some of the leaked projects include Nautilus-S, aimed at de-anonymizing users of the Tor network by collecting and analyzing their data, Mentor, designed for monitoring and analyzing social media platforms, and Hope, a project dedicated to isolating the Russian internet (Runet) from the global internet.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for SyTech in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to SyTech today — this states the absence of a published link, not that SyTech has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49071225
- https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-49050982
- https://social.cyware.com/news/hackers-breach-russian-fsb-contractor-and-expose-secret-projects-54450521
- https://cert.europa.eu/publications/threat-intelligence/threat-memo-190730-1/pdf
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-fsb-contractor-expose-tor-deanonymization-project/#ftag=CAD-00-10aag7e
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russian-state-and-surveillance-technology/
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Related pages
Pivot from SyTech 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.