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T1114.001 · Local Email Collection

🎯 Collection Windows Sub-technique

Sub-technique of T1114 · Email Collection.

Adversaries may target user email on local systems to collect sensitive information. Files containing email data can be acquired from a user’s local system, such as Outlook storage or cache files. Outlook stores data locally in offline data files with an extension of .ost. Outlook 2010 and later ...

How to detect & mitigate it

Detecting Local Email Collection 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

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