Organisation
organisation:gchq
Also: Government Communication Headquarters, Government Communications Headquarters
UK intelligence organization mentioned as an example of a secretive security service.
The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters, alleged in leaked documents to have targeted Belgacom.
“Der Spiegel published that they had seen the documents from Snowden. They said the cyber-attack on Belgacom was carried out by Britain’s GCHQ”
“the GCHQ did admit to carrying out hacking operations in the UK and abroad”
UK intelligence organization mentioned as an example of a secretive security service.
“I’ve met people who are a part of GCHQ”
UK intelligence and security organisation that published CyberChef and acknowledged a reported vulnerability in it.
“GCHQ basically published this open-source project called CyberChef.”
“The GCHQ, that comes as a surprise”
UK intelligence agency mentioned as participating in the later attribution of WannaCry.
“the NSA and GCHQ and I think the Australian intelligence services, they all came out and they pointed the finger at North Korea”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | National Security Agency | Attributed | 48 |
| outgoing | OPERATED_BY | United Kingdom | Explicit | 48 |
| incoming | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Operation Socialist | Attributed | 48 |
| incoming | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Flame | Uncertain | 48 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | CyberChef | Explicit | 117 |
Operation Socialist ATTRIBUTED_TO GCHQ
The attack was attributed to GCHQ by documents from the Snowden archive, but the episode emphasizes that this attribution was alleged and contested.
Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 48 Details
“They said the cyber-attack on Belgacom was carried out by Britain’s GCHQ”
Flame is described as thought to have been created by GCHQ and the NSA, so the attribution is uncertain.
Uncertain Confidence 78% · Jack Rhysider EP 48 Details
“Flame is thought to be created by the NSA and GCHQ.”
GCHQ ASSOCIATED_WITH National Security Agency
Snowden-related reporting described GCHQ as sharing collected data with the NSA; this is presented as an attributed surveillance relationship.
Attributed Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 48 Details
“sharing this data with the NSA”
GCHQ OPERATED_BY United Kingdom
GCHQ is identified as the United Kingdom's government communications headquarters.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 48 Details
“GCHQ, or the Government Communication Headquarters, is like the NSA but in England.”
GCHQ published CyberChef as an open-source project.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Daniel Kelley EP 117 Details
“GCHQ basically published this open-source project called CyberChef”