Intellexa Consortium

The Intellexa Consortium, notorious for its Predator spyware, faced US sanctions for targeting Americans, including government officials, journalists, and policy experts. With robust data-stealing and surveillance capabilities, Predator can compromise devices through sophisticated zero-click attacks. Despite sanctions causing operational decline, Recorded Future reports a resurgence leveraging new infrastructure, making tracking challenging. Increase in stealth and complexity signifies a continued threat to high-profile individuals globally, raising privacy, security, and ethical concerns. The renewed use of Predator could lead to significant repercussions for victims, compromising personal, financial, and strategic information.

Source: https://securityaffairs.com/168222/intelligence/predator-spyware-new-infrastructure.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/atlantic-council-geotech-center

"id": "atl000091024",
"linkid": "atlantic-council-geotech-center",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "9/2024",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization’s existence"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Cybersecurity',
                        'name': 'Intellexa Consortium',
                        'type': 'Organization'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Zero-click attacks',
 'data_breach': {'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal information',
                                              'Financial information',
                                              'Strategic information']},
 'description': 'The Intellexa Consortium faced US sanctions for targeting '
                'Americans, including government officials, journalists, and '
                'policy experts, with their Predator spyware. Predator spyware '
                'has robust data-stealing and surveillance capabilities, '
                'compromising devices through sophisticated zero-click '
                'attacks. Despite operational decline due to sanctions, there '
                'has been a resurgence leveraging new infrastructure, making '
                'tracking challenging. The increase in stealth and complexity '
                'signifies a continued threat to high-profile individuals '
                'globally, raising privacy, security, and ethical concerns. '
                'The renewed use of Predator could lead to significant '
                'repercussions for victims, compromising personal, financial, '
                'and strategic information.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Personal information',
                                 'Financial information',
                                 'Strategic information']},
 'initial_access_broker': {'high_value_targets': ['Government officials',
                                                  'Journalists',
                                                  'Policy experts']},
 'motivation': ['Surveillance', 'Data-stealing'],
 'references': [{'source': 'Recorded Future'}],
 'regulatory_compliance': {'regulations_violated': ['US sanctions']},
 'threat_actor': 'Intellexa Consortium',
 'title': 'Intellexa Consortium Predator Spyware Incident',
 'type': 'Spyware'}