Threat actor
SCL Group
Last fetched
SCL Group is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
The SCL Group, formerly known as Strategic Communication Laboratories, gained notoriety primarily through its subsidiary, Cambridge Analytica. SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica were involved in various activities related to data collection, unauthorized access to personal data, and influence/manipulation campaigns. The data was collected from Facebook through an app called thisisyourdigitallife.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for SCL Group in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to SCL Group today — this states the absence of a published link, not that SCL Group has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
- https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/3/22/politics-in-the-digital-age-cambridge-analytica-in-kenya
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/whistleblower-claims-cambridge-analyticas-partners-in-india-worked-on-elections-raising-privacy-fears/2018/03/28/1168c04c-328a-11e8-b6bd-0084a1666987_story.html
- https://advox.globalvoices.org/2019/08/06/netflixs-the-great-hack-highlights-cambridge-analyticas-role-in-trinidad-tobago-elections/
- https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2140303/how-cambridge-analyticas-parent-company-helped-man-action
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Related pages
Pivot from SCL Group 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
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.