Threat actor
YoroTrooper
Last fetched
YoroTrooper is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques and also known as 7 other names.
Also known as
Salted Earth, Sturgeon Fisher, ShadowSilk, Silent Lynx, Cavalry Werewolf, SturgeonPhisher, Comrade Saiga
Description
YoroTrooper’s main targets are government or energy organizations in Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and other Commonwealth of Independent States, based on Cisco Talos analysis. YoroTrooper was also observed compromising accounts from at least two international organizations: a critical European Union health care agency and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Successful compromises also included Embassies of European countries including Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for YoroTrooper in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to YoroTrooper today — this states the absence of a published link, not that YoroTrooper has no infrastructure.
References
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/attributing-yorotrooper/
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/yorotrooper-espionage-campaign-cis-turkey-europe/
- https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisationen/Cyber-Sicherheitslage/Analysen-und-Prognosen/Threat-Intelligence/Aktive_APT-Gruppen/aktive-apt-gruppen_node.html
- https://www.group-ib.com/blog/shadowsilk/
- https://www.seqrite.com/blog/silent-lynx-apt-targeting-central-asian-entities/
- https://bi-zone.medium.com/cavalry-werewolf-raids-russias-public-sector-with-trusted-relationship-attacks-e19f7a5c83ef
- https://www.seqrite.com/blog/operation-peek-a-baku-silent-lynx-apt-dushanbe-espionage/
- https://ctoatncsc.substack.com/p/cto-at-ncsc-summary-week-ending-october
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Related pages
Pivot from YoroTrooper 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.