Activity timeline
T1585.003 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 6 reports, and 17 of the 17 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-10.
How adversaries use it
T1585.003 Cloud Accounts is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Resource Development tactic in the Enterprise matrix, as a sub-technique of T1585 Establish Accounts. Threadlinqs maps 17 of 2623 tracked threats (0.6%) to it; by severity that is 14 high, 3 medium.
Threats that use T1585.003 most often also use T1071.001 Web Protocols (10 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (10 threats), T1036.005 Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location (9 threats), T1204.002 Malicious File (8 threats), T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information (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.
11 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1585.003; the most frequent are APT-C-60 (1), APT36 (1), APT38 (1), Bling Libra (1), DriveSurge (1).
Mitigations
MITRE ATT&CK lists 1 mitigation for T1585.003.
Threat actors using it
Tracked threats
17 tracked threats use T1585.003.
- Coordinated model-distillation campaign against OpenAI: 15,000+ accounts attempt to extract protected model…medium
- Cloudflare Containers cross-tenant residual disk data exposure via device-mapper thin-provisioning…high
- Bad Sushi: China-Nexus Phishing Operation Shifts to Residential Proxy Networkshigh
- Coordinated GitHub API Enumeration and Access Token Abuse Campaignhigh
- APT-C-60 Spear-Phishing Campaign Against Japanese Recruiters Using VHDX/LNK and SpyGlace Malwarehigh
- CrashStealer: Novel macOS Information Stealer Disguised as Apple Crash Reporter (Jamf Threat Labs)medium
- "PromptFiction" Claude Desktop Auto-Submit Flaw Chained With "Claudy Day" Claude.ai Exploit Chain Enables…high
- BoryptGrab Infostealer Campaign Abuses ~292 Fake GitHub Repos Impersonating Legitimate Softwarehigh
- The Gentlemen RaaS overtakes Qilin as #1 ransomware operation, wields GentleKiller EDR-killer framework…high
- Operation ShadowRecruit: APT36-Linked SheetAgent RAT Campaign Abuses ControlR RMM and Google Sheets C2 to…high
- ClickFix Social-Engineering Technique Becomes Dominant Malware Delivery and Defense-Evasion Vector…high
- CalPhishing: Phishing Campaign Abusing Microsoft 365 Groups and Outlook Calendar Invites for Persistent…high
- forge-jsxy npm Supply Chain RAT — 22 Versions in 22 Days with Crypto Wallet Theft, WebRTC P2P Exfil &…high
- Fox Tempest Malware-Signing-as-a-Service (MSaaS) — Microsoft DCU Disrupts signspace[.]cloud Operation…high
- GemStuffer Campaign — RubyGems Registry Abused as Exfiltration Channel for UK Local Government Datahigh
- Vercel April 2026 Security Incident — Context.ai OAuth Compromise Leads to Google Workspace Takeover and…high
- "Living Off the AI": Attackers Abuse AI Agents, MCP Connectors, and Vibe-Coding Platforms for Offensive Opsmedium
Detection coverage
Threadlinqs maintains 14 detection rules mapped to T1585.003 (SPL 6, KQL 5, Sigma 3). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.
Parent technique
T1585 Establish Accounts — 250 tracked threats at the technique level.