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ATT&CK techniquePersistencePrivilege Escalation

T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials

PersistencePrivilege EscalationEnterpriseSub-technique

As of 2026-10-05, T1098.001 (Additional Cloud Credentials) appears in 32 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-09-01, with linked actors including ShinyHunters, Bling Libra, Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters; it most often appears alongside T1528 (Steal Application Access Token).

Tracked threats
3211 critical, 17 high, 3 medium, 1 low
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-09-01
Threat actors
26In the threats using it
Detection rules
85Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1098.001 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 7 reports, and 32 of the 32 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Persistence and Privilege Escalation tactics in the Enterprise matrix, as a sub-technique of T1098 Account Manipulation. Threadlinqs maps 32 of 2623 tracked threats (1.2%) to it; by severity that is 11 critical, 17 high, 3 medium, 1 low.

Threats that use T1098.001 most often also use T1528 Steal Application Access Token (21 threats), T1078.004 Cloud Accounts (20 threats), T1526 Cloud Service Discovery (16 threats), T1550.001 Application Access Token (16 threats), T1657 Financial Theft (14 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.

26 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1098.001; the most frequent are ShinyHunters (4), Bling Libra (3), Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (3), Scattered Spider (3), The Com (3).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 5 mitigations for T1098.001.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1098.001, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Active Directory — Active Directory Object Creation, Active Directory Object Modification
  • User Account — User Account Modification

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 32 tracked threats that use T1098.001.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 85 detection rules mapped to T1098.001 (SPL 27, KQL 32, Sigma 26). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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

Parent technique

T1098 Account Manipulation — 288 tracked threats at the technique level.