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Ntrepid

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

Description

Ntrepid is a software company specializing in tools and solutions for online anonymity, intelligence gathering, and social network analysis. A subsidiary of Abraxas, a prominent contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and owned by Cubic, Ntrepid has played a major role in advancing the capabilities of U.S. military and intelligence operations. The company is best known for developing software that allows U.S. military personnel to create culturally and personally detailed false identities, enabling the infiltration of social networks in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq. A Guardian investigation revealed that the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) granted a $2.76 million contract to Ntrepid to develop the "sock puppets" for manipulation and intelligence gathering. The company’s Chief Technical Officer Lance Cottrell gave several training seminars at ISS World, the internet and telecommunications interception systems manufacturers’ conference that promotes surveillance products to governments. Cottrell is the creator of Anonymizer, which was acquired by Ntrepid's parent company Abraxas in 2008.

Techniques by tactic

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

Attributed infrastructure

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

References

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Related pages

Pivot from Ntrepid 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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