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T1200 Hardware Additions

Initial AccessEnterprise

As of 2026-10-05, T1200 (Hardware Additions) appears in 16 tracked threats, first reported 2026-04-23 and most recently 2026-09-01, with linked actors including Luna Moth, Silent Ransom Group, UNC3753; it most often appears alongside T1005 (Data from Local System).

Tracked threats
166 critical, 8 high, 1 medium
First seen
2026-04-23
Last seen
2026-09-01
Threat actors
7In the threats using it
Detection rules
30Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1200 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 6 reports, and 16 of the 16 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1200 Hardware Additions is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Initial Access tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 16 of 2623 tracked threats (0.6%) to it; by severity that is 6 critical, 8 high, 1 medium.

Threats that use T1200 most often also use T1005 Data from Local System (12 threats), T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (10 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (9 threats), T1211 Exploitation for Stealth (7 threats), T1091 Replication Through Removable Media (6 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.

7 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1200; the most frequent are Luna Moth (2), Silent Ransom Group (2), UNC3753 (2), Chaotic Eclipse (1), Nightmare Eclipse (1).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 2 mitigations for T1200.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1200, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Application Log — Application Log Content
  • Drive — Drive Creation
  • Network Traffic — Network Traffic Flow

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

16 tracked threats use T1200.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 30 detection rules mapped to T1200 (SPL 8, KQL 11, Sigma 11). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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