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T1614 System Location Discovery

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As of 2026-10-05, T1614 (System Location Discovery) appears in 74 tracked threats, first reported 2026-01-01 and most recently 2026-09-30, with linked actors including TeamPCP, InCrease, Contagious Interview; it most often appears alongside T1027 (Obfuscated Files or Information).

Tracked threats
7413 critical, 58 high, 3 medium
First seen
2026-01-01
Last seen
2026-09-30
Threat actors
38In the threats using it
Detection rules
41Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1614 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 28 reports, and 74 of the 74 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1614 System Location Discovery is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Discovery tactic in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 74 of 2623 tracked threats (2.8%) to it; by severity that is 13 critical, 58 high, 3 medium.

Threats that use T1614 most often also use T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information (62 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (61 threats), T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (49 threats), T1005 Data from Local System (47 threats), T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (46 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.

38 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1614; the most frequent are TeamPCP (5), InCrease (3), Contagious Interview (2), Contagious Interview - G1052 (2), Mustard Tempest (2).

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1614, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Command — Command Execution
  • Process — OS API Execution, Process Creation

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 74 tracked threats that use T1614.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 41 detection rules mapped to T1614 (SPL 10, KQL 16, Sigma 15). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

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

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