T1565 Data Manipulation

Adversaries may insert, delete, or manipulate data in order to influence external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data.(Citation: Sygnia Elephant Beetle Jan 2022) By manipulating data, adversaries may attempt to affect a business process, organizational understanding, or decision making.

The type of modification and the impact it will have depends on the target application and process as well as the goals and objectives of the adversary. For complex systems, an adversary would likely need special expertise and possibly access to specialized software related to the system that would typically be gained through a prolonged information gathering campaign in order to have the desired impact.

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VERIS Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
attribute.integrity.variety.Modify data Modified stored data or content related-to T1565 Data Manipulation

GCP Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
backup_and_dr_actifiogo Backup and DR-Actifio GO technique_scores T1565 Data Manipulation
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Backup and DR-Actifio GO is a copy data management plaform that virtualizes application data to improve an organizations resiliency and cloud mobility. This capability allows an organization to take regular backups and provides several methods of restoring applications and/or VM data to a previous state. This provides significant ability to respond to Data Manipulation since an organization could restore manipulated data back to the latest backup.
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cloud_vpn Cloud VPN technique_scores T1565 Data Manipulation
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This control provides protection against data from being manipulated by adversaries through target applications by encrypting important information.
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ATT&CK Subtechniques

Technique ID Technique Name Number of Mappings
T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation 5
T1565.003 Runtime Data Manipulation 2
T1565.002 Transmitted Data Manipulation 5