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ATTACK-T1496Active

Resource Hijacking

Statement

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)

Location

Tactic
Impact

Technique Details

Identifier
ATTACK-T1496
ATT&CK Page
View on MITRE

Tactics

Impact

Platforms

WindowsIaaSLinuxmacOSContainersSaaS

Detection

Resource Hijacking Detection Strategy

No cross-framework mappings available

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Impact33 controls
ATTACK-T1485Data DestructionATTACK-T1485.001Lifecycle-Triggered DeletionATTACK-T1486Data Encrypted for ImpactATTACK-T1489Service StopATTACK-T1490Inhibit System RecoveryATTACK-T1491DefacementATTACK-T1491.001Internal DefacementATTACK-T1491.002External DefacementATTACK-T1495Firmware CorruptionATTACK-T1496Resource HijackingATTACK-T1496.001Compute HijackingATTACK-T1496.002Bandwidth HijackingATTACK-T1496.003SMS PumpingATTACK-T1496.004Cloud Service HijackingATTACK-T1498Network Denial of ServiceATTACK-T1498.001Direct Network FloodATTACK-T1498.002Reflection AmplificationATTACK-T1499Endpoint Denial of ServiceATTACK-T1499.001OS Exhaustion FloodATTACK-T1499.002Service Exhaustion FloodATTACK-T1499.003Application Exhaustion FloodATTACK-T1499.004Application or System ExploitationATTACK-T1529System Shutdown/RebootATTACK-T1531Account Access RemovalATTACK-T1561Disk WipeATTACK-T1561.001Disk Content WipeATTACK-T1561.002Disk Structure WipeATTACK-T1565Data ManipulationATTACK-T1565.001Stored Data ManipulationATTACK-T1565.002Transmitted Data ManipulationATTACK-T1565.003Runtime Data ManipulationATTACK-T1657Financial TheftATTACK-T1667Email Bombing