Threat actor
Geedge Networks
Last fetched
Geedge Networks is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Geedge Networks is a Chinese cybersecurity firm that helped build China’s "Great Firewall" and now sells a commercialized version of that system abroad. Founded in 2018, the company’s Tiangou Secure Gateway can filter websites and apps, conduct real-time surveillance, throttle or shut down entire regions of the internet, pinpoint anonymous users, and automatically block circumvention tools such as VPNs and Tor. Leaked internal files show Geedge exporting these capabilities to authoritarian clients, including Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Pakistan. In Pakistan, Geedge tech replaced Sandvine equipment in 2023 to create “WMS 2.0,” the country’s upgraded national firewall. Engineers at Geedge actively reverse-engineer popular privacy tools, listing commercial VPNs as “resolved” problems and rolling out blockers like the Psiphon detector deployed after Myanmar’s 2021 coup.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Geedge Networks in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Geedge Networks today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Geedge Networks has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.financeuncovered.org/stories/british-norwegian-and-danish-governments-back-internet-provider-in-military-run-myanmar-which-hosts-notorious-chinese-surveillance-system
- 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.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-leaked-files-show-a-chinese-company-is-exporting-the-great-firewalls/
- https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/09/two-major-leaks-illuminate-censorship-and-surveillance-sales-into-and-from-china/
- https://eng.mizzima.com/2025/09/10/26237
- https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/
- https://www.justiceformyanmar.org/stories/silk-road-of-surveillance
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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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