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Giant Oak

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

Description

Giant Oak Inc. is a U.S.-based company that develops data analytics and monitoring technologies. Their primary product, Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST), is a tool designed to analyze and filter large amounts of online data, including social media, to identify individuals and networks of interest. Founded by Gary Shiffman, a former U.S. Navy veteran and DARPA researcher, Giant Oak has received millions in U.S government contracts since 2014. These contracts include work with agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and others, for purposes such as immigration enforcement and intelligence investigations. Originally developed from earlier projects like "Social Locator," GOST creates detailed profiles by analyzing digital traces, highlighting keywords, and providing visual summaries of online activity. It has been used to flag "derogatory" content on social media. GOST also allows agencies to search for individuals using identifiers like names, addresses, or emails and ranks results based on specific requirements. Additionally, it can screen and rank large groups of individuals simultaneously. In February 2024, Saifr, a compliance solutions provider created by Fidelity Investments, announced the acquisition of GOST.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Giant Oak in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

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

References

© The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation.

Related pages

Pivot from Giant Oak 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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