Threat actor
AASMA
Last fetched
AASMA is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
The Advanced Application for Social Media Analytics (AASMA) is a social media surveillance tool developed by the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, with funding from the Indian government. It is utilized by at least 40 government departments in India. AASMA can collect and analyze live data from platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, perform sentiment analysis, track user locations and devices, and send alerts to authorities based on predefined criteria. It is employed for purposes such as monitoring public sentiment, handling protests, and identifying influential users.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for AASMA in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to AASMA today — this states the absence of a published link, not that AASMA has no infrastructure.
References
- https://scroll.in/article/893015/40-government-departments-are-using-a-social-media-surveillance-tool-and-little-is-known-of-it
- https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/digital-surveillance-and-the-threat-to-civil-liberties-in-india
- https://www.medianama.com/2018/09/223-40-government-departments-are-using-a-social-media-surveillance-tool-scroll-in-2/
- https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/true-the-government-is-monitoring-our-mobile-exchanges
- https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/from-new-delhi-to-patna-govt-is-watching-your-social-media-from-61-places-118122700271_1.html
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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 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.