Threat actor
Venntel
Last fetched
Venntel is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Venntel is a data analytics company. It provides U.S government agencies, such as the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), with tools to access and analyze location data derived from mobile apps. These tools are marketed as a way to aid investigations by uncovering patterns and tracking movements. This data is often acquired from commercial sources, such as data brokers, bypassing the need for a warrant.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Venntel in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Venntel today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Venntel has no infrastructure.
References
- https://vault.fbi.gov/contract-with-venntel/Contract%20with%20Venntel%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/view
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/customs-border-protection-venntel-location-data-dhs/
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/irs-investigation-location-data-no-warrant-venntel/
- https://therecord.media/ftc-location-data-brokers-gravy-venntel-mobilewalla
- https://theintercept.com/2020/06/24/fbi-surveillance-social-media-cellphone-dataminr-venntel/
- https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/new-records-detail-dhs-purchase-and-use-of-vast-quantities-of-cell-phone-location-data
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Related pages
Pivot from Venntel 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.