Threat actor
Lightspeed
Last fetched
Lightspeed is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Lightspeed Systems develops tools designed to monitor and manage student activity on school-issued devices. Its software provides features like real-time screen monitoring, web filtering, and AI-powered alerts to identify "inappropriate behavior." The software can track students' online activities both during and outside school hours, often without their explicit awareness. The company claims to be used on 15 million student devices globally, and by 28,000 schools worldwide.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Lightspeed in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Lightspeed today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Lightspeed has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.teenvogue.com/story/school-surveillance-student-privacy-knight-foundation-lawsuit
- https://silverchips.mbhs.edu/content/lightspeed-and-the-age-of-student-surveillance-37102/
- https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/share-your-experience-with-student-surveillance/
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/us-students-digital-surveillance-schools
- https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/monitoring-student-searches-raises-questions-about-privacy
- https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2022/02/14/spying-or-protecting-students-cbs46-investigates-school-surveillance-software/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250808044253/https://7157e75ac0509b6a8f5c-5b19c577d01b9ccfe75d2f9e4b17ab55.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/EROEGXMP-PDF-3-593908-449855399.pdf
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Related pages
Pivot from Lightspeed 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 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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