// MITRE ATT&CK
T1110.003 · Password Spraying
🎯 Credential Access ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindowsmacOS Sub-technique
Sub-technique of T1110 · Brute Force.
Adversaries may use a single or small list of commonly used passwords against many different accounts to attempt to acquire valid account credentials. Password spraying uses one password (e.g. 'Password01'), or a small list of commonly used passwords, that may match the complexity policy of the doma...
How to detect & mitigate it
Detecting Password Spraying starts with your SIEM/EDR telemetry. Write a detection rule with the Sigma generator, analyze suspicious logs in the log analyzer, and place the technique on your coverage with the ATT&CK matrix.
Related techniques
T1557
Adversary-in-the-Middle T1110.001
Password Guessing T1003
OS Credential Dumping T1539
Steal Web Session Cookie T1003.002
Security Account Manager T1552.005
Cloud Instance Metadata API T1555.002
Securityd Memory T1110.002
Password Cracking
Adversary-in-the-Middle T1110.001
Password Guessing T1003
OS Credential Dumping T1539
Steal Web Session Cookie T1003.002
Security Account Manager T1552.005
Cloud Instance Metadata API T1555.002
Securityd Memory T1110.002
Password Cracking
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