T1496: Resource Hijacking

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Summary

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)

Source Attribution

Source: MITRE ATT&CK · Confidence: high

Platforms

  • Windows
  • IaaS
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Containers
  • SaaS

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