Threat actor
Criteo
Last fetched
Criteo is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Criteo, a French digital marketing company specializing in targeted advertising, has deepened its focus on surveillance-driven data strategies with the launch of its Criteo Innovation Hub in Washington, D.C. A key move was enlisting James Shinn, a former CIA East Asia officer, whose intelligence background signals a focus on advanced data collection and analysis techniques. In 2022, Criteo was hit with a preliminary €60 million (~$65 million) fine by France’s privacy watchdog, CNIL, for violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The investigation found that Criteo lacked proper legal bases for its extensive tracking and profiling practices
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Criteo in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Criteo today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Criteo has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance--interception/2021/06/01/criteo-hires-former-cia-agent-for-us-branch,109670170-art
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/criteo-gdpr-breaches-cnil/
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/arms-race-against-trackers-safari-leads-criteo-30
- https://revealnews.org/article-legacy/easily-obtained-subpoenas-turn-your-personal-information-against-you/
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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.