Threat actor
Zencity
Last fetched
Zencity is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Zencity is an Israeli data analytics company that helps local governments monitor public sentiment by analyzing social media, message boards, local news, and other public data sources. Serving over 200 agencies across the United States, its platform is used by U.S cities like Phoenix, New Orleans, and Pittsburgh to track public reactions to topics. It also enables police agencies to track negative sentiment toward law enforcement without residents' knowledge or consent. The lack of public oversight in contracts with Zencity, often approved without city council input, has led to criticism that usage of the tool prioritizes surveillance over genuine community engagement.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Zencity in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Zencity today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Zencity has no infrastructure.
References
- https://progressive.org/latest/government-monitor-you-lahm-210827/
- https://www.wired.com/story/ai-helps-police-monitor-social-media-go-too-far/
- https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cut-the-contract-with-israeli-surveillance-company-zencity
- https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/cities-monitoring-resident-social-media-zencity/
- https://www.axios.com/2019/08/14/cities-track-citizens-sentiment-through-social-media
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Related pages
Pivot from Zencity 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.