T1069.002 Domain Groups — ATT&CK Technique

Activity timeline

T1069.002 first appeared in tracked threats on 2026-02-16 and was most recently reported on 2026-09-26. The busiest month was 2026-07 with 11 reports, and 32 of the 32 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1069.002 Domain Groups is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Discovery tactic in the Enterprise matrix, as a sub-technique of T1069 Permission Groups Discovery. Threadlinqs maps 32 of 2623 tracked threats (1.2%) to it; by severity that is 8 critical, 19 high, 5 medium.

Threats that use T1069.002 most often also use T1087.002 Domain Account (23 threats), T1059.001 PowerShell (22 threats), T1018 Remote System Discovery (20 threats), T1071.001 Web Protocols (20 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (18 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.

17 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1069.002; the most frequent are Akira (2), Cavern Manticore (2), Storm-1567 (2), Vanilla Tempest (2), ALPHV (1).

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1069.002, per MITRE ATT&CK.

Command — Command Execution
Group — Group Enumeration
Process — OS API Execution, Process Creation

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 32 tracked threats that use T1069.002.

Related CVEs

CVEs referenced by the tracked threats that use T1069.002, most frequent first.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 58 detection rules mapped to T1069.002 (SPL 18, KQL 20, Sigma 20). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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

Parent technique

T1069 Permission Groups Discovery — 101 tracked threats at the technique level.