Thanks to Cormac Doherty for writing the web scraper! To update the galaxy run the included gen_defence_university.py script.
"The China Defence Universities Tracker is a database of Chinese institutions engaged in military or security-related science and technology research. It was created by ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre.
It includes entries on nearly 100 civilian universities, 50 People’s Liberation Army institutions, China’s nuclear weapons program, three Ministry of State Security institutions, four Ministry of Public Security universities, and 12 state-owned defence industry conglomerates.
The Tracker is a tool to inform universities, governments and scholars as they engage with the entities from the People’s Republic of China. It aims to build understanding of the expansion of military-civil fusion—the Chinese government’s policy of integrating military and civilian efforts—into the education sector.
The Tracker should be used to inform due diligence of Chinese institutions. However, the fact that an institution is not included here does not indicate that it should not raise risks or is not involved in defence research. Similarly, entries in the database may not reflect the full range and nature of an institution’s defence and security links." - ASPI (https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/about/)
Moved the JUDGMENT PANDA references to APT31 following the previous commit.
Off note, Crowdstrike quietly removed the JUDGMENT PANDA section from its GTR-2019 report. However if anyone wants to grab the unchanged report, they can get it [here](https://b-ok.asia/book/3697424/2ab30a).
Based on https://github.com/MISP/misp-galaxy/issues/469
There is an old and persistence issue in attribution world and basically no-one really agrees on this. So we decided to start a specific metadata `threat-actor-classification` on the threat-actor to define the various types per cluster entry:
- _operation_:
- _A military operation is the coordinated military actions of a state, or a non-state actor, in response to a developing situation. These actions are designed as a military plan to resolve the situation in the state or actor's favor. Operations may be of a combat or non-combat nature and may be referred to by a code name for the purpose of national security. Military operations are often known for their more generally accepted common usage names than their actual operational objectives._ from Wikipedia
- **In the context of MISP threat-actor name, it's a single specific operation.**
- _campaign_:
- _The term military campaign applies to large scale, long duration, significant military strategy plans incorporating a series of inter-related military operations or battles forming a distinct part of a larger conflict often called a war. The term derives from the plain of Campania, a place of annual wartime operations by the armies of the Roman Republic._ from Wikipedia
- **In the context of MISP threat-actor-name, it's long-term activity which might be composed of one or more operations.**
- threat-actor
- **In the context of MISP threat-actor-name, it's an agreed name by a set of organisations.**
- activity group
- **In the context of MISP threat-actor-name, it's a group defined by its set of common techniques or activities.**
- unknown
- **In the context of MISP threat-actor-name, it's still not clear if it's an operation, campaign, threat-actor or activity group**
The meta field is an array to allow specific cluster of threat-actor to show the current disagreement between different organisations about the type (threat actor, activity group, campaign and operation).
- based on the paper published here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05110.pdf
- thanks to the ATT&CK EU community conference speakers highlighting this framework!
