T1114: Email Collection
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Data from MITRE ATT&CK®:
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. Adversaries can collect or forward email from mail servers or clients.
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Cyber Threat Graph Context
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Reporting on this Technique
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Mitigations for this technique
MITRE ATT&CK Mitigations
Audit
Perform audits or scans of systems, permissions, insecure software, insecure configurations, etc. to identify potential weaknesses.Multi-factor Authentication
Use two or more pieces of evidence to authenticate to a system; such as username and password in addition to a token from a physical smart card or token generator.Encrypt Sensitive Information
Protect sensitive information with strong encryption.How to detect this technique
MITRE ATT&CK Data Components
Logon Session Creation (Logon Session)
Initial construction of a successful new user logon following an authentication attempt. (e.g. Windows EID 4624, /var/log/utmp, or /var/log/wmtp)File Access (File)
Opening a file, which makes the file contents available to the requestor (ex: Windows EID 4663)Command Execution (Command)
The execution of a line of text, potentially with arguments, created from program code (e.g. a cmdlet executed via powershell.exe, interactive commands like >dir, shell executions, etc. )Network Connection Creation (Network Traffic)
Initial construction of a network connection, such as capturing socket information with a source/destination IP and port(s) (ex: Windows EID 5156, Sysmon EID 3, or Zeek conn.log)Application Log Content (Application Log)
Logging, messaging, and other artifacts provided by third-party services (ex: metrics, errors, and/or alerts from mail/web applications)Sigma Detections for this Technique
SP800-53 Controls
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