APT29 (Midnight Blizzard)
Russian SVR espionage group behind the SolarWinds hack and Microsoft's 2024 email breach, phishing diplomats and abusing cloud identity, now hijacking hotel Wi-Fi.
- Active
- 2008 to October 2026
- Origin
- Russia (Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR, per US and UK governments)
- Type
- State-sponsored
- Affiliates
- Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR); UNC2452 and UNC3524 (merged into APT29 by Mandiant); Storm-2945 and Storm-2372 (Midnight Blizzard sub-clusters per Microsoft); UNC6293 (low-confidence link per Google); CozyLarch (overlap per Volexity)
- Regions targeted
- United States, NATO and EU member states, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Australia, Japan, Mongolia, Africa, Asia, global
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0016
What each vendor calls it
- Microsoft
- Midnight BlizzardNOBELIUMYTTRIUM
- CrowdStrike
- Cozy BearCozyDuke
- Google / Mandiant
- APT29UNC2452UNC3524
- Palo Alto Unit 42
- Cloaked UrsaSolarStorm
- Sophos / Secureworks
- IRON HEMLOCKIRON RITUAL
- Proofpoint
- TA421
- ESET
- The Dukes
- Recorded Future
- BlueBravo
- IBM X-Force
- ITG11
Also known as ATK7Blue Kitsune PwCDark Halo VolexityGroup 100ICE RELICICECAPMinidionisNobleBaron SentinelOneSeaDukeSolar PhoenixStellarParticleUAC-0029 CERT-UA
Profile
APT29 is the hacking arm most closely tied to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR. MITRE ATT&CK tracks it as a group operating since at least 2008, and the attribution is not just a vendor call: on April 15, 2021 the US government formally named the SVR as the actor behind the SolarWinds compromise, which it said is also known as APT29, Cozy Bear and The Dukes, and the UK made the same call the same day. Later joint advisories from the FBI, NSA, CISA, the UK NCSC and Polish agencies all write about “SVR cyber actors” rather than a vendor nickname, and Microsoft, which calls the group Midnight Blizzard (formerly NOBELIUM), repeats the US and UK attribution in every report.
The mission is classic foreign intelligence. The October 2024 FBI, NSA, Cyber National Mission Force and NCSC advisory splits SVR victims into “targets of intent” (governments, diplomats, think tanks, international organizations, technology firms and cleared defense contractors in North America and Western Europe, with Ukraine a steady focus since 2021) and “targets of opportunity”: anyone with an unpatched internet-facing server the SVR can borrow for infrastructure or use as a stepping stone. That second category is why companies with no obvious link to Russian policy keep turning up in APT29 incident reports.
The group’s defining operation was the SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack. FireEye (now Mandiant) disclosed in December 2020 that trojanized Orion updates had delivered the SUNBURST backdoor to Orion customers, with hands-on follow-up at a much smaller set of government and technology targets. Mandiant tracked the campaign as UNC2452 until April 2022, when it merged it into APT29. Its review is a good summary of the group’s style: from 2018 to 2021 it used custom malware in a little under half of its intrusions, preferring stolen credentials, Golden SAML token forgery and native Microsoft 365 features, and it sometimes reached domain admin within 12 hours of a phishing payload running. Mandiant later folded UNC3524, a cluster that hid on unmonitored network appliances for at least 18 months while reading executives’ mail, into APT29 as well.
Identity is the main battleground. In 2023 and 2024 the SVR’s preferred way in became password spraying from residential proxies, abuse of OAuth applications and dormant or service accounts, MFA fatigue and registering its own devices in victims’ cloud tenants, all described in the February 2024 CISA and NCSC advisory AA24-057A. The most striking example was Microsoft itself: the company detected Midnight Blizzard in its corporate email in January 2024 after the actor password-sprayed a legacy test tenant account without MFA and then abused a test OAuth app to read executives’ and security staff’s mailboxes. CISA’s Emergency Directive 24-02 later said the actor had stolen email between federal agencies and Microsoft and tried to use credentials found in it. Since 2025 the group has leaned hard on device code phishing, which tricks a user into authorizing an attacker’s session on the real Microsoft sign-in page, and Google has seen a likely related cluster talk targets into handing over Gmail app-specific passwords.
Phishing against diplomats has never stopped, and the lures keep getting more personal. Polish military counterintelligence and CERT Polska documented 2022 and 2023 waves against NATO and EU foreign ministries using HTML smuggling (EnvyScout) and loaders that talked to Notion. In 2024 Mandiant saw fake dinner invitations in German carrying a new backdoor, WINELOADER, aimed at German political parties, the first time it had seen this subcluster go after parties rather than embassies. Check Point reported the same wine-tasting theme against European diplomats in early 2025, and Microsoft logged a spear-phishing wave in October 2024 that mailed signed RDP configuration files to thousands of people at more than 100 organizations.
APT29 also exploits software, mostly n-days and at scale. Joint advisories list it abusing Fortinet, Pulse Secure, Citrix, Zimbra and VMware flaws in 2021, Zimbra mail servers across hundreds of domains, and from September 2023 the JetBrains TeamCity bug CVE-2023-42793, which the FBI, CISA, NSA, SKW, CERT Polska and NCSC warned could set up another software supply-chain attack. One finding stands out: Google’s Threat Analysis Group, with moderate confidence, tied a 2023 to 2024 watering-hole campaign on Mongolian government sites to APT29 and found it reusing iOS and Chrome exploits identical or very similar to ones sold by Intellexa and NSO Group.
The newest shift is toward travelers and AI-assisted tooling. In July 2026 Microsoft described CaptiveCrunch, run by a Midnight Blizzard sub-cluster it calls Storm-2945: since May 2026 the operators manipulated hotel and venue Wi-Fi captive portals to push fake browser updates and ClickFix prompts that installed a Go RAT called CornFlake, or steered travelers into device code phishing. Microsoft says the sub-cluster uses AI for a significant part of its operations, that the campaign resumed on September 29, 2026, apparently through continued access to hospitality managed service providers, and that it now regards Storm-2372, the device code phishing actor it first described in February 2025 only as Russia-aligned, as Midnight Blizzard’s initial-access sub-cluster.
Naming is crowded: Mandiant uses APT29 (with the retired UNC2452 and UNC3524), Microsoft Midnight Blizzard, CrowdStrike Cozy Bear, ESET The Dukes, Unit 42 Cloaked Ursa, Recorded Future BlueBravo, Volexity Dark Halo and CozyLarch, Google’s newer reports ICECAP, and CERT-UA UAC-0029 (full list above). Vendors don’t always agree on where APT29 ends and a related SVR cluster begins, so this profile says which vendor made each call.
Events
| Date | Target | Narrative | Source | Our coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05 to 2026-10 | Corporate travelers using hotel, conference-center and airport Wi-Fi worldwide | CaptiveCrunch: Microsoft’s Storm-2945, a Midnight Blizzard sub-cluster, uses an T1557 (Adversary-in-the-Middle) position on captive-portal networks to serve fake browser and OS updates and ClickFix prompts, T1204.004 (User Execution: Malicious Copy and Paste), installing the CornFlake RAT and ChocoShell stealer or pushing device code phishing. The campaign resumed on Sept. 29, 2026, with a Rust CornFlake variant in some cases. | Microsoft | |
| 2026-08 to 2026-09 | Phone users visiting compromised sites in Ukraine, the US, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, and thousands of mostly Ukrainian sites (including army, special forces and drone-equipment sites) that loaded the Plerdy SEO tracker | Sekoia reports watering holes, lookalike reverse-proxy sites and, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 3, 2026, a poisoned Plerdy main.js (T1195.002 (Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain), T1189 (Drive-by Compromise)) that fingerprinted visitors and served n-day exploit chains for iOS (including DarkSword) and Android Chrome (T1203 (Exploitation for Client Execution)) to steal cookies, messages, Keychain data and Wi-Fi passwords. Sekoia attributes it to APT29 or a subgroup with moderate to high confidence. |
Sekoia | Our story |
| 2026-02 | Microsoft 365 users | Microsoft says Storm-2945 began AI-assisted device code and OAuth code phishing against Microsoft 365 accounts, the precursor to CaptiveCrunch. | Microsoft | |
| 2025-08 | Visitors to compromised legitimate websites | Amazon disrupts an APT29 watering-hole operation, T1189 (Drive-by Compromise): injected JavaScript sent about 10% of visitors to fake Cloudflare verification pages that walked them through Microsoft device code authentication for an attacker device. The actor moved to new domains after takedown. | Amazon | |
| 2025-04 to 2025-06 | Prominent academics, critics of Russia and journalists | Google’s UNC6293, which it links to APT29 only with low confidence, poses as the US State Department and talks targets into creating Gmail app-specific passwords and sending them over, giving persistent mailbox access without the password or 2-step verification. | Google GTIG | |
| 2025-01 onward | European foreign ministries and embassies | Check Point reports fake wine-tasting and diplomatic-dinner invitations impersonating a European foreign ministry, delivering the new GRAPELOADER loader and a fresh WINELOADER variant. | Check Point | |
| 2025-02 | Recipients of fake US State Department invitations | Volexity’s CozyLarch, which it says overlaps with APT29, sends fake Microsoft 365 tenant and Teams chat invitations whose links lead to the real device login page, T1528 (Steal Application Access Token). Microsoft separately reports Storm-2372 device code phishing since August 2024; in 2026 it calls Storm-2372 a Midnight Blizzard sub-cluster. | Volexity, Microsoft | |
| 2024-10 | Government, higher education, defense and NGOs in the UK, Europe, Australia and Japan | Spear-phishing with signed RDP configuration files, T1566.001 (Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment), sent to thousands of people at more than 100 organizations; opening one connects the victim’s drives, clipboard and smart cards to an attacker server. CERT-UA tracked overlapping activity as UAC-0215. | Microsoft | |
| 2023-11 to 2024-07 | Visitors to Mongolian government websites (cabinet.gov.mn, mfa.gov.mn) | Watering-hole attacks serve an iOS Safari exploit (CVE-2023-41993) and later a Chrome on Android chain (CVE-2024-5274, CVE-2024-4671) to steal browser cookies. Google TAG ties them to APT29 with moderate confidence and notes the exploits match ones sold by Intellexa and NSO Group. | Google TAG | |
| 2024-06 | TeamViewer corporate IT environment | Attackers use a standard employee’s credentials to copy employee directory data, including encrypted passwords. TeamViewer attributes the intrusion to APT29 / Midnight Blizzard and says its product environment and customer data were not affected. | TeamViewer | |
| 2024-01 to 2024-03 | German political parties; diplomatic entities in Czechia, Germany, India, Italy, Latvia and Peru | German-language CDU dinner invitations link to ROOTSAW (EnvyScout), which side-loads the new WINELOADER backdoor, T1574.001 (Hijack Execution Flow: DLL). Mandiant calls it the first time this APT29 subcluster has targeted political parties. | Mandiant | |
| 2023-11 to 2024-04 | Microsoft corporate email; US federal agencies | T1110.003 (Brute Force: Password Spraying) against a legacy test tenant account without MFA, then a hijacked test OAuth app grants new apps full mailbox access, T1098.001 (Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Credentials). Microsoft detected it on Jan. 12, 2024; CISA’s ED 24-02 says email between agencies and Microsoft was stolen. | Microsoft, CISA ED 24-02 | |
| 2023-09 to 2023-12 | A few dozen companies in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, including software developers, hosting firms and an energy trade association | Mass exploitation of JetBrains TeamCity (CVE-2023-42793), T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application), followed by the GraphicalProton backdoor talking through OneDrive and Dropbox, T1102.002 (Web Service: Bidirectional Communication). The agencies assess it may have been groundwork for supply-chain attacks. | CISA AA23-347A | |
| 2023-05 to 2023-08 | Fewer than 40 organizations in government, NGOs, IT, technology, manufacturing and media | From hijacked small-business Microsoft 365 tenants renamed to look like support teams, operators send Teams chats, T1566.003 (Phishing: Spearphishing via Service), asking targets to approve an Authenticator prompt, then sometimes register a device, T1098.005 (Account Manipulation: Device Registration). | Microsoft | |
| 2022-10 to 2023-04 | Foreign ministries and diplomats, mainly in NATO and EU states, fewer in Africa | Phishing with HTML smuggling, T1027.006 (Obfuscated Files or Information: HTML Smuggling), ISO and IMG images and DLL side-loading delivers SNOWYAMBER (which uses Notion for command and control), HALFRIG and QUARTERRIG, then Cobalt Strike or Brute Ratel. | SKW and CERT Polska | |
| 2022 (reported May) | Mailboxes of executives and M&A, corporate development and IT security staff | Mandiant’s UNC3524 hides on SAN arrays, load balancers and wireless controllers with the QUIETEXIT backdoor, uses hijacked conference-room cameras for command and control and stays undetected for at least 18 months, reading mail through Exchange Web Services, T1114.002 (Email Collection: Remote Email Collection). Mandiant merged UNC3524 into APT29 in November 2022. | Mandiant | |
| 2021-05 | Government agencies, think tanks, consultants and NGOs | After taking over a USAID account on the Constant Contact mailing service, the group sends phishing to about 3,000 accounts at more than 150 organizations, T1566.002 (Phishing: Spearphishing Link). Volexity tracks related election-fraud-themed lures as a suspected APT29 operation. | Microsoft, Volexity | |
| 2021-03 | Government officials in Western European countries | LinkedIn messages lead iPhone users to a WebKit zero-day (CVE-2021-1879) that steals login cookies for major web services. Google TAG calls the actor likely Russian government-backed and the same one behind an operation Volexity attributes to suspected APT29. | Google TAG | |
| 2021-04 | Not applicable (attribution and advisory) | The US and UK formally attribute the SolarWinds compromise to the SVR. A follow-up US advisory lists five VPN, mail and identity-gateway flaws (Fortinet, Pulse Secure, Citrix, Zimbra, VMware) the SVR was exploiting for initial access. | US Treasury, NCSC, CISA AA21-116A | |
| 2020-03 to 2020-12 | SolarWinds Orion customers, including US federal agencies and technology firms | Trojanized Orion updates deliver SUNBURST, T1195.002 (Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain); selected victims get TEARDROP and Cobalt Strike, and the actor forges tokens with stolen AD FS signing certificates, T1606.002 (Forge Web Credentials: SAML Tokens), to reach Microsoft 365 mail. | FireEye, CISA AA20-352A | |
| 2020 (advisory July) | COVID-19 vaccine research and development organizations in the UK, US and Canada | The UK NCSC, Canada’s CSE and the US NSA say APT29 scanned for and exploited VPN and mail-server flaws and deployed the WellMess and WellMail malware against vaccine developers, highly likely to steal research on COVID-19 vaccines. | NCSC, CSE, NSA | |
| 2013 to 2019 | Foreign ministries in at least three European countries and an EU country’s embassy in Washington | ESET’s Operation Ghost: PolyglotDuke, RegDuke, MiniDuke and FatDuke, with command-and-control addresses hidden on Twitter, Reddit and Imgur and payloads concealed in images, showing The Dukes never went quiet after 2015. | ESET | |
| 2018-11 | Government, defense, media, think tanks, law enforcement and transportation organizations | A phishing wave spoofing a US State Department official delivers a malicious LNK file and Cobalt Strike; FireEye calls it a suspected APT29 campaign, noting overlaps with a 2016 operation. | FireEye | |
| 2015 to 2016 | US Democratic National Committee and other political organizations | CrowdStrike finds Cozy Bear inside the DNC network from summer 2015, separately from Fancy Bear. The December 2016 US GRIZZLY STEPPE report names APT29 as the actor that entered a US political party’s systems in 2015. | CrowdStrike, DHS and FBI | |
| 2008 | Governments and related organizations | Earliest activity MITRE attributes to the group. | MITRE ATT&CK |
Target vectors risk profile
| Government | Diplomatic | Cloud/identity | Technology/SaaS | Software supply chain | Dissidents/NGOs | Education/research | Defense | Media/journalists | Elections | Edge devices/VPNs | Healthcare | Transportation/logistics | Energy | Finance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | High | High | High | High | High | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Malware and tools
| Name | What it does | Public detection | Hunt Leads | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UltimateFingerprinter, DarkSword, AndroSnitch | JavaScript fingerprinting script that decides which phones get exploits; iOS 18 exploit chain that pulls messages, mail, Keychain, location and photos; Android Chrome chain that steals cookies, logins and saved Wi-Fi passwords | Indicators in Sekoia’s report (its YARA rules are shared with CERTs only, TLP:AMBER) | 4 Hunt Leads | Sekoia |
| CornFlake, ChocoShell, FruitStone | Go (and later Rust) Windows RAT with keylogging, screen, audio and webcam capture; in-memory PowerShell stealer for cookies and Microsoft 365 tokens; operator panel disguised as a cloud console | Hunting queries and indicators in Microsoft’s report | Microsoft | |
| WINELOADER, GRAPELOADER, ROOTSAW (EnvyScout) | Modular backdoor side-loaded through legitimate binaries; newer loader used in 2025 wine-tasting lures; HTML-smuggling first stage | YARA hunting rules in Mandiant’s report | Mandiant, Check Point | |
| GraphicalProton | Backdoor that hides commands and results in BMP images on OneDrive and Dropbox, deployed after TeamCity exploitation | YARA rules and indicators in CISA AA23-347A | CISA AA23-347A | |
| SNOWYAMBER, HALFRIG, QUARTERRIG | Downloaders and loaders from the 2022 to 2023 diplomatic phishing waves; SNOWYAMBER uses Notion for command and control | Indicators in the SKW and CERT Polska report | SKW and CERT Polska | |
| QUIETEXIT | Dropbear SSH-based backdoor run on network appliances that lack EDR | Hunting commands in Mandiant’s report | Mandiant | |
| SUNBURST, TEARDROP, RAINDROP | Backdoor hidden in SolarWinds Orion updates and the droppers that loaded Cobalt Strike BEACON on chosen victims | Mandiant countermeasures; community YARA rules in signature-base | FireEye, CISA AA20-352A | |
| GoldMax, GoldFinder, Sibot | Second-stage backdoor, HTTP tracer and persistence tool found in SolarWinds follow-on intrusions | Indicators in Microsoft’s report | Microsoft | |
| WellMess, WellMail | Go and .NET implants used against COVID-19 vaccine research in 2020 | Indicators and YARA rules in the NCSC, CSE and NSA advisory | NCSC, CSE, NSA | |
| MiniDuke, PolyglotDuke, RegDuke, FatDuke | The Dukes’ long-running backdoor family, using social media and image steganography for command and control | Indicators in ESET’s malware-ioc repository | ESET | |
| Cobalt Strike, Brute Ratel | Commercial post-exploitation frameworks the group has favored since 2021, partly to blur attribution | Community YARA rules in signature-base (older APT29 tooling); Cobalt Strike rules widely published | Mandiant, SKW and CERT Polska |
Reports
Vulnerabilities exploited
| Vulnerability | CVSS | Severity | Publisher | Platform | CISA KEV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-43520 | 5.5 | Medium | Apple | iOS and other Apple OSes | Yes |
| CVE-2024-27834 | 5.5 | Medium | Apple | iOS and other Apple OSes (PAC bypass) | Yes |
| CVE-2025-27038 | 7.5 | High | Qualcomm | Adreno GPU (Android chipsets) | Yes |
| CVE-2025-43510 | 7.8 | High | Apple | iOS and other Apple OSes | Yes |
| CVE-2026-20700 | 7.8 | High | Apple | iOS and other Apple OSes | Yes |
| CVE-2026-3910 | 8.8 | High | Chromium V8 on Android | Yes | |
| CVE-2025-14174 | 8.8 | High | Chromium (ANGLE), used in an iOS chain | Yes | |
| CVE-2025-43529 | 8.8 | High | Apple | iOS and other Apple OSes (WebKit) | Yes |
| CVE-2024-5274 | 9.6 | Critical | Chrome (V8) | Yes | |
| CVE-2024-4671 | 9.6 | Critical | Chrome (Visuals) | Yes | |
| CVE-2023-42793 | 9.8 | Critical | JetBrains | TeamCity | Yes |
| CVE-2023-41993 | 8.8 | High | Apple | Safari / WebKit on iOS | Yes |
| CVE-2022-27924 | 7.5 | High | Synacor | Zimbra Collaboration Suite | Yes |
| CVE-2021-1879 | 6.1 | Medium | Apple | WebKit on iOS | Yes |
| CVE-2020-4006 | 9.1 | Critical | VMware | Workspace ONE Access and related identity products | Yes |
| CVE-2019-19781 | 9.8 | Critical | Citrix | Application Delivery Controller and Gateway | Yes |
| CVE-2019-11510 | 10.0 | Critical | Pulse Secure (Ivanti) | Pulse Connect Secure VPN | Yes |
| CVE-2019-9670 | 9.8 | Critical | Synacor | Zimbra Collaboration Suite | Yes |
| CVE-2018-13379 | 9.8 | Critical | Fortinet | FortiOS SSL VPN | Yes |
If you’re in their sights
Do this now
- Move high-value staff to phishing-resistant MFA (passkeys or hardware keys), block the device code sign-in flow with Conditional Access unless a team truly needs it, and enroll at-risk people in Google’s Advanced Protection so app-specific passwords can’t be created. Most recent APT29 access came from users approving a real sign-in for the attacker.
- Hunt your tenant for what the group leaves behind: OAuth apps with mail-wide permissions such as full_access_as_app, new credentials added to service principals, unfamiliar registered devices and forgotten test or service accounts without MFA. Disable dormant accounts rather than just resetting their passwords.
- Patch internet-facing VPNs, mail servers and build systems (Fortinet, Pulse/Ivanti, Citrix, Zimbra, TeamCity) quickly. The SVR mass-scans for these and uses opportunistic victims as launch points.
- Block .rdp file attachments at the mail gateway and restrict outbound RDP to the internet, and tell staff that a dinner invitation or “verification” page asking them to run a file or paste a command is an attack.
- Give traveling staff a mobile hotspot or always-on VPN and a rule never to install updates, certificates or tools offered by hotel or airport Wi-Fi portals. Watch for logins from residential proxy ranges that don’t match the user’s usual devices.
Compiled from US Treasury, CISA, FBI, NSA and UK NCSC advisories, Polish SKW and CERT Polska, Microsoft, Mandiant and FireEye, Google TAG and GTIG, Amazon, Volexity, Check Point, ESET, CrowdStrike, TeamViewer and MITRE ATT&CK. Last reviewed November 5, 2026.
ATT&CK techniques (66)
Techniques MITRE ATT&CK links to this group from public reporting, grouped by tactic. A technique can sit under more than one tactic.
Reconnaissance 1
Resource Development 6
Initial Access 9
- T1078 (Valid Accounts)
- T1078.003 (Valid Accounts: Local Accounts)
- T1078.004 (Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts)
- T1133 (External Remote Services)
- T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application)
- T1199 (Trusted Relationship)
- T1566.001 (Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment)
- T1566.002 (Phishing: Spearphishing Link)
- T1566.003 (Phishing: Spearphishing via Service)
Execution 9
- T1047 (Windows Management Instrumentation)
- T1053.005 (Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task)
- T1059.001 (Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell)
- T1059.006 (Command and Scripting Interpreter: Python)
- T1059.009 (Command and Scripting Interpreter: Cloud API)
- T1203 (Exploitation for Client Execution)
- T1204.001 (User Execution: Malicious Link)
- T1204.002 (User Execution: Malicious File)
- T1651 (Cloud Administration Command)
Persistence 15
- T1037 (Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts)
- T1037.004 (Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts: RC Scripts)
- T1053.005 (Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task)
- T1078 (Valid Accounts)
- T1078.003 (Valid Accounts: Local Accounts)
- T1078.004 (Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts)
- T1098.002 (Account Manipulation: Additional Email Delegate Permissions)
- T1098.005 (Account Manipulation: Device Registration)
- T1133 (External Remote Services)
- T1136.003 (Create Account: Cloud Account)
- T1505.003 (Server Software Component: Web Shell)
- T1546.003 (Event Triggered Execution: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription)
- T1546.008 (Event Triggered Execution: Accessibility Features)
- T1547.001 (Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder)
- T1556.007 (Modify Authentication Process: Hybrid Identity)
Privilege Escalation 13
- T1037 (Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts)
- T1037.004 (Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts: RC Scripts)
- T1053.005 (Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task)
- T1068 (Exploitation for Privilege Escalation)
- T1078 (Valid Accounts)
- T1078.003 (Valid Accounts: Local Accounts)
- T1078.004 (Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts)
- T1098.002 (Account Manipulation: Additional Email Delegate Permissions)
- T1098.005 (Account Manipulation: Device Registration)
- T1546.003 (Event Triggered Execution: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription)
- T1546.008 (Event Triggered Execution: Accessibility Features)
- T1547.001 (Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder)
- T1548.002 (Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control)
Stealth 10
- T1027.001 (Obfuscated Files or Information: Binary Padding)
- T1027.002 (Obfuscated Files or Information: Software Packing)
- T1027.006 (Obfuscated Files or Information: HTML Smuggling)
- T1036.005 (Masquerading: Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location)
- T1070.004 (Indicator Removal: File Deletion)
- T1070.006 (Indicator Removal: Timestomp)
- T1078 (Valid Accounts)
- T1078.003 (Valid Accounts: Local Accounts)
- T1078.004 (Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts)
- T1218.005 (System Binary Proxy Execution: Mshta)
Defense Impairment 3
Credential Access 8
- T1003.002 (OS Credential Dumping: Security Account Manager)
- T1003.004 (OS Credential Dumping: LSA Secrets)
- T1110.001 (Brute Force: Password Guessing)
- T1110.003 (Brute Force: Password Spraying)
- T1528 (Steal Application Access Token)
- T1556.007 (Modify Authentication Process: Hybrid Identity)
- T1621 (Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation)
- T1649 (Steal or Forge Authentication Certificates)
Discovery 2
Lateral Movement 2
Software MITRE links to this group (49)
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