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Mühlbauer

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

Description

Mühlbauer, a German technology company, became Uganda's first biometric ID system provider in 2010 following a meeting between President Museveni and the German ambassador. The $80 million contract was controversial as it bypassed normal government procurement rules by avoiding a competitive bidding process. The company played a significant role in expanding Uganda's biometric identity coverage, registering approximately 5 million citizens in just 6 weeks. Their system provided ID cards and digital identities to Ugandan citizens. While Mühlbauer's technology was ostensibly implemented for legitimate identification purposes, extensive documentation and interviews gathered by Bloomberg and nonprofit investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports reveal it has evolved into a sophisticated surveillance tool used to monitor politicians, journalists, human rights advocates, and ordinary citizens in Uganda.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Mühlbauer in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

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

References

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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 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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