Threat actor
Fivecast
Last fetched
Fivecast is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Fivecast is a company that develops AI-powered software used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to analyze online content for potential threats. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Fivecast's software detects sentiment and emotion in social media posts and recognizes objects in images and videos. It also scans for "risk terms and phrases" across multiple languages, gathering data from both major social platforms like Facebook and Reddit, as well as smaller communities like 4chan and Gab. CBP has spent millions on Fivecast's technology, which they use to monitor individuals they believe may pose risks to public safety, national security, or lawful trade and travel. Fivecast's tools are capable of mapping out networks of connections and tracking persons-of-interest starting with minimal information, as demonstrated in their promotional materials. Fivecast is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia. The company was co-founded in 2017 by Brenton Cooper, Duane Rivett, Ross Buglak, and David Blockow. Fivecast has a strong connection to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which includes agencies from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The company's tools have been developed in consultation with law enforcement and intelligence agencies from these Five Eyes nations, optimizing their software to meet the specific requirements of these agencies for monitoring and analyzing online threats.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Fivecast in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Fivecast today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Fivecast has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.404media.co/ai-surveillance-tool-dhs-cbp-sentiment-emotion-fivecast/
- https://aibusiness.com/verticals/australia-s-fivecast-signs-5m-ai-contract-with-us-defense-counterintelligence-security-agency
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fivecast-completes-us-20m-au30m-series-a-raise-with-new-us-and-existing-australian-vc-investors-301793523.html
- https://www.wired.com/story/military-ais-next-frontier-your-work-computer/
- https://www.404media.co/the-ai-tools-cbp-is-using-to-scan-social-media/
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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
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