Threat actor
Meltwater
Last fetched
Meltwater is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Meltwater is a Norwegian media intelligence platform that provides tools for monitoring and analyzing social media, news, blogs, and other online content. It is now headquartered in San Francisco, California. Meltwater's capabilities include real-time social media monitoring, keyword tracking, and sentiment analysis. Meltwater has also been used by law enforcement agencies for surveillance purposes. Police departments have reportedly utilized the platform to monitor social media activity related to protests and against specific targets and communities. The company has secured contracts with Canadian federal agencies for media monitoring services. In 2015, the UK government contracted Meltwater, among other firms, to monitor public social media activity. In 2021, Singapore's Ministry of Communications and Information appointed Meltwater, to provide media monitoring and online analytics services for all government agencies. Meltwater also operates multiple offices in India, including locations in Delhi and Bengaluru.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Meltwater in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Meltwater today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Meltwater has no infrastructure.
References
- https://script-ed.org/article/law-enforcement-in-the-age-of-big-data-and-surveillance-intermediaries-transparency-challenges/
- https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/cities-and-police-nationwide-spending-millions-social-media-monitoring
- https://www.wired.com/story/government-pays-companies-to-monitor-social-media-use/
- https://search.open.canada.ca/contracts/?page=1&search_text=Meltwater&sort=score+desc
- https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/meltwater-opens-global-rd-centre-in-hyderabad/article69124489.ece
- https://www.marketing-interactive.com/mci-appoints-3-firms-for-whole-of-government-media-monitoring-tender
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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
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.