T1114

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Email Collection

Description

Adversaries may target user email to collect sensitive information. Emails may contain sensitive data, including trade secrets or personal information, that can prove valuable to adversaries.

Emails may also contain details of ongoing incident response operations, which may allow adversaries to adjust their techniques in order to maintain persistence or evade defenses. Adversaries can collect or forward email from mail servers or clients.

Sub-techniques

T1114.001 — Local Email Collection T1114.002 — Remote Email Collection T1114.003 — Email Forwarding Rule