T1496: Resource Hijacking

MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise technique

Description

Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability.

Resource hijacking may take a number of different forms. For example, adversaries may:

• Leverage compute resources in order to mine cryptocurrency
• Sell network bandwidth to proxy networks
• Generate SMS traffic for profit
• Abuse cloud-based messaging services to send large quantities of spam messages

In some cases, adversaries may leverage multiple types of Resource Hijacking at once.(Citation: Sysdig Cryptojacking Proxyjacking 2023)

Detection

(no detection guidance published)

Data sources

• (none listed)

References

• ATT&CK page: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1496
• ATT&CK Enterprise matrix: https://attack.mitre.org/matrices/enterprise/