Activity timeline
T1404 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-09 with 6 reports, and 17 of the 17 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.
How adversaries use it
T1404 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Privilege Escalation (Mobile) tactic in the Mobile matrix. Threadlinqs maps 17 of 2623 tracked threats (0.6%) to it; by severity that is 5 critical, 10 high, 1 medium.
Threats that use T1404 most often also use T1426 System Information Discovery (11 threats), T1430 Location Tracking (11 threats), T1409 Stored Application Data (9 threats), T1429 Audio Capture (9 threats), T1512 Video Capture (8 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.
2 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1404; the most frequent are Intellexa Consortium (2), NSO Group (2).
Mitigations
MITRE ATT&CK lists 3 mitigations for T1404.
Threat actors using it
Tracked threats
17 tracked threats use T1404.
- Zero-Permission Android Apps Can Chain AtlasService and olc2 to Gain Root on OnePlus/OPPO Devices via…high
- FomoPeek iOS App Store Poisoning: Kernel Exploit Framework Steals Crypto Private Keys via Keychain Decryptioncritical
- CVE-2025-39682 — Linux Kernel net/tls rx_list Zero-Length Record Use-After-Free Added to CISA KEV Catalogcritical
- Zero-click Pixel 10 exploit chain: VPU driver mmap flaw (CVE-2026-0106) enables arbitrary kernel read/write…critical
- Pegasus Spyware Used to Hack Phone of Former MEP Stelios Kouloglou, PEGA Committee Memberhigh
- Serbian Authorities Deploy Pegasus and NoviSpy Spyware Against Journalists, Opposition Politicians, and…high
- Banking Trojans: Manic, Grandoreiro, and ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlighthigh
- Apple Patches ImageIO Integer Overflow (CVE-2026-65346) Exploitable via Malicious Imageshigh
- Apple Expands On-Device Lock Screen Alerts for Mercenary Spyware Targetshigh
- NSO Group Co-Founder Shalev Hulio Held Israeli Diplomatic Passport in Panama, Raising State-Ties Questions…
- UK Supreme Court Rejects Bahrain's State Immunity Claim in FinSpy/FinFisher Spyware Surveillance Case…medium
- Pegasus Spyware Used Against Former MEP Stelios Kouloglou While Serving on PEGA Committeecritical
- European Parliament Member Investigating Pegasus Spyware Hacked With Pegasus (PWNYOURHOME Zero-Click Exploit…critical
- Pegasus Spyware (PWNYOURHOME Zero-Click Chain) Used Against European Parliament PEGA Committee Member…high
- CVE-2026-20971: Eight-Year-Old Samsung Knox PROCA/FIVE Kernel Use-After-Free in /proc/pid/integrity Handlershigh
- Pegasus Mercenary Spyware Used for State Surveillance of Azerbaijani Journalists, Activists, and Human…high
- Predator Spyware: Undocumented iOS Kernel Exploitation Engine (FDGuardNeonRW, PAC Bypass, RWTransfer)high
Detection coverage
Threadlinqs maintains 39 detection rules mapped to T1404 (SPL 17, KQL 12, Sigma 10). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.