Adversaries may create an account to maintain access to victim systems.1 With a sufficient level of access, creating such accounts may be used to establish secondary credentialed access that does not require persistent remote access tools to be deployed on the system. Accounts may be created on the local system or within a domain or cloud tenant. In cloud environments, adversaries may create accounts that only have access to specific services, which can reduce the chance of detection.
- Symantec WastedLocker June 2020
Groups using this technique
| Group | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| grp_g1045 | Salt Typhoon | — |
| grp_g0119 | Indrik Spider | Russia |
| grp_g1015 | Scattered Spider | — |
Claims
No public claim points at this technique yet.
Auto-ingested and not human-reviewed; confidence and validity read by citation.