#T1496 Resource Hijacking

Technique

  • Tactics: Impact
  • Description:

    Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability.

    Resource hijacking may take a number of different forms. For example, adversaries may:

    * Leverage compute resources in order to mine cryptocurrency
    * Sell network bandwidth to proxy networks
    * Generate SMS traffic for profit
    * Abuse cloud-based messaging services to send large quantities of spam messages

    In some cases, adversaries may leverage multiple types of Resource Hijacking at once.(Citation: Sysdig Cryptojacking Proxyjacking 2023)

  • First Seen: Hunting Lazarus: Inside the Contagious Interview C2 Infrastructure • 2026-01-12
MITRE ATT&CK

Tagged Reports

2026-02-03
Red Asgard
#ContagiousInterview #Lazarus #T1566.003 #T1552.001 #T1114 #T1027.002 #T1573.001 #T1098 #T1547.001 #T1530 #T1496 #T1005 #T1053.005 #T1113 #T1219 #T1560 #T1204.002 #T1102.001 #T1071.001 #T1087 #T1573.002 #T1555.003 #T1056.001 #T1497.001
2026-02-01
Red Asgard
#Lazarus #OtterCookie #T1027 #T1566.003 #T1027.002 #T1528 #T1573.001 #T1547.001 #T1496 #T1059.007 #T1053.005 #T1113 #T1020 #T1204.002 #T1102.001 #T1115 #T1497 #T1573.002 #T1555.003 #T1056.001 #T1497.001
2026-01-12
Red Asgard
#ContagiousInterview #Lazarus #T1059.006 #T1059.007 #T1562.001 #T1053.005 #T1539 #T1555 #T1573.002 #T1048.003 #T1204.002 #T1036.005 #T1566.003 #T1573.001 #T1547.001 #T1102.001 #T1027.002 #T1496
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