Threat actor
Social Sentinel
Last fetched
Social Sentinel is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Social Sentinel, now known as Navigate360, is a technology monitoring company that tracks students' social media behavior, claiming to identify risks of self-harm or violence on campuses and alert administrators. Reports indicate that the service has been used to monitor student protests and scrutinize individuals who have lodged complaints against university administrations. According to the Dallas Morning News, campus police used it to surveil student protests. Their investigation also uncovered that the company promoted its services to various universities as a way to manage and prevent protests. The documents suggest the company is expanding its scope, offering tools for monitoring student emails on university platforms.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Social Sentinel in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Social Sentinel today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Social Sentinel has no infrastructure.
References
- https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2022/social-sentinel/
- https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/18/editorial-surveillance-social-sentinel/
- https://www.statepress.com/article/2022/09/asu-used-social-sentinel-surveillance-tech-2017-to-2020
- https://dailybruin.com/2022/10/09/ucla-administrators-monitor-students-social-media-activity
- https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/09/ai-monitoring-student-protests-social-sentinel
- https://www.thecollegefix.com/ut-dallas-monitored-student-speech-with-technology-linked-to-preventing-protests-records-show/
- https://navigate360.com/blog/social-sentinel-joins-navigate360/
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Related pages
Pivot from Social Sentinel 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.