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T1119 Automated Collection

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As of 2026-10-05, T1119 (Automated Collection) appears in 300 tracked threats, first reported 2021-11-25 and most recently 2026-10-04, with linked actors including TeamPCP, APT28, Contagious Interview; it most often appears alongside T1005 (Data from Local System).

Tracked threats
30082 critical, 177 high, 38 medium
First seen
2021-11-25
Last seen
2026-10-04
Threat actors
95In the threats using it
Detection rules
339Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1119 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 151 reports, and 299 of the 300 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-10.

How adversaries use it

T1119 Automated Collection is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Collection tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 300 of 2623 tracked threats (11.4%) to it; by severity that is 82 critical, 177 high, 38 medium.

Threats that use T1119 most often also use T1005 Data from Local System (157 threats), T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information (154 threats), T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (135 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (135 threats), T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service (133 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.

95 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1119; the most frequent are TeamPCP (10), APT28 (6), Contagious Interview (6), ShinyHunters (6), APT38 (5).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 2 mitigations for T1119.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1119, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Command — Command Execution
  • File — File Access
  • Script — Script Execution
  • User Account — User Account Authentication

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 300 tracked threats that use T1119.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 339 detection rules mapped to T1119 (SPL 95, KQL 134, Sigma 110). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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