// MITRE ATT&CK
T1596.003 · Digital Certificates
Sub-technique of T1596 · Search Open Technical Databases.
Adversaries may search public digital certificate data for information about victims that can be used during targeting. Digital certificates are issued by a certificate authority (CA) in order to cryptographically verify the origin of signed content. These certificates, such as those used for encryp...
How to detect & mitigate it
Detecting Digital Certificates 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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