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Tykelab

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Tykelab is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.

Description

Tykelab, a little-known company based in Rome, has been utilizing dozens of phone networks, often located on remote Pacific islands, to send tens of thousands of secret “tracking packets” worldwide. These packets target individuals in countries such as Libya, Nicaragua, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Iraq, Mali, Greece, and Portugal, as well as within Italy itself. Tykelab exploits longstanding but often unaddressed vulnerabilities in global phone networks, allowing third parties to track phone users’ locations and potentially intercept their calls without leaving any trace on the devices. Tykelab’s parent company, RCS Lab, has also developed a powerful phone hacking tool called Hermit. Once installed on a victim’s device, Hermit can remotely activate the phone’s microphone, record calls, access messages, call logs, contacts, photos, and other sensitive data.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Tykelab in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Tykelab today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Tykelab has no infrastructure.

References

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Related pages

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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 25
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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 1000
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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 25
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