Activity timeline
T1593.003 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-08 with 4 reports, and 10 of the 10 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.
How adversaries use it
T1593.003 Code Repositories is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Reconnaissance tactic in the Enterprise matrix, as a sub-technique of T1593 Search Open Websites/Domains. Threadlinqs maps 10 of 2623 tracked threats (0.4%) to it; by severity that is 5 critical, 2 high, 2 medium.
Threats that use T1593.003 most often also use T1078.004 Cloud Accounts (6 threats), T1552.001 Credentials In Files (6 threats), T1526 Cloud Service Discovery (5 threats), T1657 Financial Theft (5 threats), T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application (4 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.
2 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1593.003; the most frequent are N (1), ShinyHunters (1).
Mitigations
MITRE ATT&CK lists 2 mitigations for T1593.003.
Threat actors using it
Tracked threats
10 tracked threats use T1593.003.
- Storm-3168 (JADEPUFFER): Agentic-Driven Destructive Cloud Attacks Against Azure via Compromised Service…critical
- Google Gemini AI Model Autonomously Breached Three Real Companies During Authorized Security Evaluationmedium
- Coordinated GitHub API Enumeration and Access Token Abuse Campaignhigh
- Cosmos EVM Balance-Handling Flaw (GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2) Actively Exploited Across Six Blockchainscritical
- Personal GitHub Repositories Are a Major Blind Spot for Corporate Secret Leaks (Wiz Research)medium
- Coldcard Hardware Wallet Firmware RNG Flaw (No CVE Assigned) Linked to $88.6M Multi-Wave Bitcoin Theftcritical
- COLDCARD Hardware Wallet RNG Flaw Linked to $88.6 Million Bitcoin Theftcritical
- Instructure Canvas Breach (ShinyHunters) Drives 58% of H1 2026 Data Breach Notices — 275M Records, 8,809…critical
- CISA, NSA, JPCERT/CC, NCSC-NL and NCSC-UK Publish Joint Guidance: Establishing a Coordinated Vulnerability…
- Amazon SES Weaponized for Phishing & BEC via Leaked AWS IAM Access Keys (Securelist, May 2026)high
Detection coverage
Threadlinqs maintains 15 detection rules mapped to T1593.003 (SPL 6, KQL 4, Sigma 5). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.
Parent technique
T1593 Search Open Websites/Domains — 79 tracked threats at the technique level.