T1213.003 Code Repositories — ATT&CK Technique

Activity timeline

T1213.003 first appeared in tracked threats on 2026-02-03 and was most recently reported on 2026-09-29. The busiest month was 2026-09 with 7 reports, and 26 of the 26 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1213.003 Code Repositories is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Collection tactic in the Enterprise matrix, as a sub-technique of T1213 Data from Information Repositories. Threadlinqs maps 26 of 2623 tracked threats (1%) to it; by severity that is 11 critical, 13 high, 1 medium.

Threats that use T1213.003 most often also use T1552.001 Credentials In Files (15 threats), T1528 Steal Application Access Token (14 threats), T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application (13 threats), T1078 Valid Accounts (11 threats), T1199 Trusted Relationship (11 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.

9 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1213.003; the most frequent are Hacktron AI (2), ShinyHunters (2), TeamPCP (2), Bling Libra (1), Coinbase Cartel (1).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 4 mitigations for T1213.003.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1213.003, per MITRE ATT&CK.

Application Log — Application Log Content
Logon Session — Logon Session Creation

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

26 tracked threats use T1213.003.

Related CVEs

CVEs referenced by the tracked threats that use T1213.003, most frequent first.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 53 detection rules mapped to T1213.003 (SPL 18, KQL 20, Sigma 15). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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

Parent technique

T1213 Data from Information Repositories — 412 tracked threats at the technique level.