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T1069 Permission Groups Discovery

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As of 2026-10-05, T1069 (Permission Groups Discovery) appears in 101 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-09-19, with linked actors including APT28, BlueDelta, Forest Blizzard; it most often appears alongside T1059 (Command and Scripting Interpreter).

Tracked threats
10137 critical, 56 high, 8 medium
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-09-19
Threat actors
50In the threats using it
Detection rules
41Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1069 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 44 reports, and 101 of the 101 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1069 Permission Groups Discovery is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Discovery tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 101 of 2623 tracked threats (3.9%) to it; by severity that is 37 critical, 56 high, 8 medium.

Threats that use T1069 most often also use T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter (69 threats), T1078 Valid Accounts (67 threats), T1087 Account Discovery (66 threats), T1005 Data from Local System (59 threats), T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application (58 threats). These are the techniques an intrusion set tends to chain with it, so they are the natural next places to look when it is observed.

50 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1069; the most frequent are APT28 (4), BlueDelta (4), Forest Blizzard (4), Chaotic Eclipse (2), FSB Center 16 (2).

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1069, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Application Log — Application Log Content
  • Command — Command Execution
  • Group — Group Enumeration, Group Metadata
  • Process — Process Creation

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 101 tracked threats that use T1069.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 41 detection rules mapped to T1069 (SPL 11, KQL 17, Sigma 13). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

41 detection rules (SPL/KQL/Sigma) · Blue and above. Compare plans

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