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Balgh

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Balgh is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.

Description

The Balgh (بلغ - meaning "report" in Arabic) platform, launched by Iraq's Ministry of Interior in January 2023, is a digital tool designed to allow citizens to report social media content deemed to "violate public morals" or "undermine social stability." Within just over a month of its launch, the platform received over 96,000 reports, resulting in prosecutions and prison sentences for individuals accused of publishing content deemed critical or offensive, including creators of music and comedy. In a statement co-signed by the nonprofit INSM for Digital Rights in Iraq on January 2025, marking two years since the launch of Balgh, human rights organizations highlighted how the platform has enabled a pervasive culture of widespread surveillance and fear online. It has encouraged individuals to monitor and report one another to the Iraqi authorities, leading to arrests and interrogations.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Balgh in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Balgh today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Balgh has no infrastructure.

References

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Related pages

Pivot from Balgh 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 25
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Techniques 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 1000
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Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.


MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25
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