T1114Techniquecollectionagent-callable

T1114Email Collection

Platforms: Windows · macOS · Linux · Office Suite

ATT&CK version: v19.1

What it is

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.(Citation: TrustedSec OOB Communications)(Citation: CISA AA20-352A 2021) Adversaries can collect or forward email from mail servers or clients.

ATT&CK tactics· 1

Collection

References

  1. https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1114
  2. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa20-352a
  3. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/timmcmic/2015/06/08/exchange-and-office-365-mail-forwarding-2/
  4. https://trustedsec.com/blog/to-oob-or-not-to-oob-why-out-of-band-communications-are-essential-for-incident-response
Sourced from MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v14.1. Curated and contextualized for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.
T1114: Email Collection | SQUR Knowledge Base