Activity timeline
T1453 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-09 with 4 reports, and 10 of the 10 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.
How adversaries use it
T1453 Abuse Accessibility Features is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Collection (Mobile) and Credential Access (Mobile) tactics in the Mobile matrix. Threadlinqs maps 10 of 2623 tracked threats (0.4%) to it; by severity that is 1 critical, 9 high.
Threats that use T1453 most often also use T1660 Phishing (10 threats), T1513 Screen Capture (9 threats), T1516 Input Injection (8 threats), T1418 Software Discovery (7 threats), T1646 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (7 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.
Mitigations
MITRE ATT&CK lists 1 mitigation for T1453.
Tracked threats
10 tracked threats use T1453.
- RatHat Android RAT: MaaS Consoles Add Gemini AI-Driven Victim Prioritizationhigh
- RatHat: AI-Powered Android Banking Trojan Abuses Accessibility Service and ADB to Steal Credentials, PINs…high
- Mantax Otax: Indonesian Android Malware Combines Ransomware with Spyware Integrationhigh
- Serbian Authorities Deploy Pegasus and NoviSpy Spyware Against Journalists, Opposition Politicians, and…high
- ToxicPanda 2.0 Android Banking Trojan Expands to 349 Financial Institutions Across 16 Countrieshigh
- WindRelay + SpyNote Combo: NFC Relay Malware Enables Contactless Card Fraud Across Central/Eastern Europehigh
- Octagon / OctagonPanel "Ward" Android RAT Impersonates Bahrain's "BH Alert" Civil Defense App to Steal…high
- Flying Eagle Android RAT: Leaked Source Code Powers 170 Active C2 Servers, Successor "Night Dragon" Emergeshigh
- Glitch SPY Android RAT Distributed via Fake Polish Rental App ("Tutaj Dom") Using Brokewell Loaderhigh
- OverlayPhantom Android Banking Trojan — Novel Overlay-Driven Credential Theft Targeting 180+ Banking and…critical
Detection coverage
Threadlinqs maintains 16 detection rules mapped to T1453 (SPL 7, KQL 4, Sigma 5). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.