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T1589.003 · Employee Names

🎯 Reconnaissance PRE Sub-technique

Sub-technique of T1589 · Gather Victim Identity Information.

Adversaries may gather employee names that can be used during targeting. Employee names be used to derive email addresses as well as to help guide other reconnaissance efforts and/or craft more-believable lures. Adversaries may easily gather employee names, since they may be readily available and e...

How to detect & mitigate it

Detecting Employee Names 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.

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