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T1526 Cloud Service Discovery

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As of 2026-10-05, T1526 (Cloud Service Discovery) appears in 157 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-09-26, with linked actors including TeamPCP, ShinyHunters, Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters; it most often appears alongside T1528 (Steal Application Access Token).

Tracked threats
15758 critical, 83 high, 15 medium
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-09-26
Threat actors
46In the threats using it
Detection rules
124Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1526 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 57 reports, and 157 of the 157 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1526 Cloud Service Discovery is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Discovery tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 157 of 2623 tracked threats (6%) to it; by severity that is 58 critical, 83 high, 15 medium.

Threats that use T1526 most often also use T1528 Steal Application Access Token (104 threats), T1213 Data from Information Repositories (83 threats), T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service (82 threats), T1078 Valid Accounts (80 threats), T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application (73 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.

46 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1526; the most frequent are TeamPCP (12), ShinyHunters (10), Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (5), UNC6395 (5), Bling Libra (4).

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1526, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Cloud Service — Cloud Service Enumeration
  • Logon Session — Logon Session Creation

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 157 tracked threats that use T1526.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 124 detection rules mapped to T1526 (SPL 39, KQL 49, Sigma 36). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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