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City Shield

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

Description

City Shield, a private security group based in Detroit, has been employed by the University of Michigan to conduct surveillance on pro-Palestinian student groups. The university has paid City Shield's parent company, Ameri-Shield, over $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 for these services. The surveillance activities included following, recording, and eavesdropping on students, with some reports of investigators threatening and attempting to harm students physically. The evidence gathered by City Shield has been used by Michigan prosecutors to charge students.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for City Shield in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

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

References

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Related pages

Pivot from City Shield 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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