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T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard

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As of 2026-10-05, T1538 (Cloud Service Dashboard) appears in 28 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-09-14, with linked actors including ShinyHunters, Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, The Com; it most often appears alongside T1078 (Valid Accounts).

Tracked threats
286 critical, 18 high, 3 medium
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-09-14
Threat actors
20In the threats using it
Detection rules
18Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1538 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 11 reports, and 28 of the 28 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Discovery tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 28 of 2623 tracked threats (1.1%) to it; by severity that is 6 critical, 18 high, 3 medium.

Threats that use T1538 most often also use T1078 Valid Accounts (18 threats), T1530 Data from Cloud Storage (16 threats), T1199 Trusted Relationship (15 threats), T1213 Data from Information Repositories (15 threats), T1087 Account Discovery (14 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.

20 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1538; the most frequent are ShinyHunters (5), Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (4), The Com (4), Scattered Spider (3), UNC6040 (3).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 1 mitigation for T1538.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1538, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Logon Session — Logon Session Creation
  • User Account — User Account Authentication

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

28 tracked threats use T1538.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 18 detection rules mapped to T1538 (SPL 5, KQL 7, Sigma 6). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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