T1589.003 Employee Names Mappings

Adversaries may gather employee names that can be used during targeting. Employee names be used to derive email addresses as well as to help guide other reconnaissance efforts and/or craft more-believable lures.

Adversaries may easily gather employee names, since they may be readily available and exposed via online or other accessible data sets (ex: Social Media or Search Victim-Owned Websites).(Citation: OPM Leak) Gathering this information may reveal opportunities for other forms of reconnaissance (ex: Search Open Websites/Domains or Phishing for Information), establishing operational resources (ex: Compromise Accounts), and/or initial access (ex: Phishing or Valid Accounts).

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VERIS Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
action.hacking.variety.Footprinting Footprinting and fingerprinting related-to T1589.003 Gather Victim Identity Information: Employee Names
value_chain.targeting.variety.Personal Information Information on individuals such as title, interests, physical location, etc, used to pick an organization as a target related-to T1589.003 Gather Victim Identity Information: Employee Names

AWS Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
aws_security_hub AWS Security Hub technique_scores T1589.003 Employee Names
Comments
AWS Security Hub detects improperly secured data from S3 buckets such as public read and write access that may result in an adversary getting access to information that could be used during targeting. AWS Security Hub provides these detections with the following managed insights. S3 buckets with public write or read permissions S3 buckets with sensitive data This is scored as Minimal because S3 only represents one of many available sources of information that an adversary could use for targeting.
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