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T1565 Data Manipulation

ImpactEnterprise

As of 2026-10-05, T1565 (Data Manipulation) appears in 192 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-09-25, with linked actors including APT38, Cyber Av3ngers, Lazarus Group; it most often appears alongside T1059 (Command and Scripting Interpreter).

Tracked threats
19295 critical, 75 high, 16 medium, 1 low
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-09-25
Threat actors
44In the threats using it
Detection rules
78Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1565 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 70 reports, and 192 of the 192 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1565 Data Manipulation is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Impact tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 192 of 2623 tracked threats (7.3%) to it; by severity that is 95 critical, 75 high, 16 medium, 1 low.

Threats that use T1565 most often also use T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter (122 threats), T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application (117 threats), T1005 Data from Local System (109 threats), T1071 Application Layer Protocol (88 threats), T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (86 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.

44 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1565; the most frequent are APT38 (4), Cyber Av3ngers (4), Lazarus Group (4), MuddyWater (3), Stardust Chollima (3).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 4 mitigations for T1565.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1565, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • File — File Creation, File Deletion, File Metadata, File Modification
  • Network Traffic — Network Traffic Content, Network Traffic Flow
  • Process — OS API Execution

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 192 tracked threats that use T1565.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 78 detection rules mapped to T1565 (SPL 26, KQL 23, Sigma 29). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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

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