Adversaries may target user email to collect sensitive information. Emails may contain sensitive data, including trade secrets or personal information, that can prove valuable to adversaries. Emails may also contain details of ongoing incident response operations, which may allow adversaries to adjust their techniques in order to maintain persistence or evade defenses.12 Adversaries can collect or forward email from mail servers or clients.
- TrustedSec OOB Communications
- CISA AA20-352A 2021
Groups using this technique
| Group | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| grp_g0122 | Silent Librarian | — |
| grp_g1015 | Scattered Spider | — |
| grp_g0059 | Magic Hound | Iran |
| grp_g1003 | Ember Bear | Russia |
Claims
No public claim points at this technique yet.
Auto-ingested and not human-reviewed; confidence and validity read by citation.