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ATT&CK techniqueReconnaissance

T1592 Gather Victim Host Information

ReconnaissanceEnterprise

As of 2026-10-05, T1592 (Gather Victim Host Information) appears in 153 tracked threats, first reported 2026-01-25 and most recently 2026-09-12, with linked actors including APT35, BonJoviGoesHard, Cyber Av3ngers; it most often appears alongside T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application).

Tracked threats
15374 critical, 63 high, 11 medium
First seen
2026-01-25
Last seen
2026-09-12
Threat actors
34In the threats using it
Detection rules
57Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1592 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 61 reports, and 153 of the 153 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1592 Gather Victim Host Information is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Reconnaissance tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 153 of 2623 tracked threats (5.8%) to it; by severity that is 74 critical, 63 high, 11 medium.

Threats that use T1592 most often also use T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application (113 threats), T1595 Active Scanning (90 threats), T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter (85 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (81 threats), T1005 Data from Local System (77 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.

34 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1592; the most frequent are APT35 (2), BonJoviGoesHard (2), Cyber Av3ngers (2), DriveSurge (2), APT27 (1).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 1 mitigation for T1592.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1592, per MITRE ATT&CK.

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Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 153 tracked threats that use T1592.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 57 detection rules mapped to T1592 (SPL 19, KQL 22, Sigma 16). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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

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