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ATT&CK techniquePrivilege Escalation

T1611 Escape to Host

Privilege EscalationEnterprise

As of 2026-10-05, T1611 (Escape to Host) appears in 97 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-10-04, with linked actors including TeamPCP, APT38, JADEPUFFER; it most often appears alongside T1068 (Exploitation for Privilege Escalation).

Tracked threats
9750 critical, 42 high, 5 medium
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-10-04
Threat actors
16In the threats using it
Detection rules
226Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1611 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 39 reports, and 97 of the 97 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-10.

How adversaries use it

T1611 Escape to Host is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Privilege Escalation tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 97 of 2623 tracked threats (3.7%) to it; by severity that is 50 critical, 42 high, 5 medium.

Threats that use T1611 most often also use T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (63 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (59 threats), T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application (55 threats), T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter (51 threats), T1005 Data from Local System (45 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.

16 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1611; the most frequent are TeamPCP (8), APT38 (2), JADEPUFFER (2), Jade Sleet (2), Lazarus Group (2).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 5 mitigations for T1611.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1611, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Container — Container Creation
  • Kernel — Kernel Module Load
  • Process — OS API Execution, Process Creation
  • Volume — Volume Modification

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 97 tracked threats that use T1611.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 226 detection rules mapped to T1611 (SPL 78, KQL 70, Sigma 77, other 1). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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