Threat actor
AppLogic Networks
Last fetched
AppLogic Networks is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
AppLogic Networks (formerly Sandvine) is a Canadian network intelligence company. A 2018 report by Citizen Lab found Sandvine DPI equipment being used in Turkey, Egypt, and elsewhere to block news, political sites, and inject spyware into downloads. In in 2020, Masaar conducted tests revealing that Sandvine equipment was used to block access to press and human rights websites in Egypt. In 2025, Amnesty International reported that Sandvine technology was central to Pakistan’s first national firewall system (WMS 1.0), enabling mass surveillance and censorship of online communications.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for AppLogic Networks in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to AppLogic Networks today — this states the absence of a published link, not that AppLogic Networks has no infrastructure.
References
- https://citizenlab.ca/2018/03/bad-traffic-sandvines-packetlogic-devices-deploy-government-spyware-turkey-syria/
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass-surveillance-and-censorship-machine-is-fueled-by-chinese-european-emirati-and-north-american-companies/
- https://www.applogicnetworks.com/blog/sandvine-becomes-applogic-networks
- https://masaar.net/en/press-and-human-rights-websites-blocked-in-egypt-using-sandvine-equipment/
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Queries
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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
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