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T1114 Email Collection

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As of 2026-10-05, T1114 (Email Collection) appears in 129 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-10-03, with linked actors including APT28, Forest Blizzard, BlueDelta; it most often appears alongside T1566 (Phishing).

Tracked threats
12939 critical, 74 high, 16 medium
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-10-03
Threat actors
49In the threats using it
Detection rules
95Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1114 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 39 reports, and 129 of the 129 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-10.

How adversaries use it

T1114 Email Collection is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Collection tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 129 of 2623 tracked threats (4.9%) to it; by severity that is 39 critical, 74 high, 16 medium.

Threats that use T1114 most often also use T1566 Phishing (81 threats), T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information (67 threats), T1071 Application Layer Protocol (65 threats), T1583 Acquire Infrastructure (59 threats), T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service (56 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.

49 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1114; the most frequent are APT28 (9), Forest Blizzard (8), BlueDelta (7), APT29 (4), ShinyHunters (4).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 4 mitigations for T1114.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1114, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Application Log — Application Log Content
  • Command — Command Execution
  • File — File Access
  • Logon Session — Logon Session Creation
  • Network Traffic — Network Connection Creation

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 129 tracked threats that use T1114.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 95 detection rules mapped to T1114 (SPL 27, KQL 37, Sigma 31). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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

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