// MITRE ATT&CK
T1593.002 · Search Engines
Sub-technique of T1593 · Search Open Websites/Domains.
Adversaries may use search engines to collect information about victims that can be used during targeting. Search engine services typical crawl online sites to index context and may provide users with specialized syntax to search for specific keywords or specific types of content (i.e. filetypes).(C...
How to detect & mitigate it
Detecting Search Engines 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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