Local Accounts - T1078.003 (fdc47f44-dd32-4b99-af5f-209f556f63c2)
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a local account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. Local accounts are those configured by an organization for use by users, remote support, services, or for administration on a single system or service.
Local Accounts may also be abused to elevate privileges and harvest credentials through OS Credential Dumping. Password reuse may allow the abuse of local accounts across a set of machines on a network for the purposes of Privilege Escalation and Lateral Movement.
Cluster A | Galaxy A | Cluster B | Galaxy B | Level |
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Local Accounts - T1078.003 (fdc47f44-dd32-4b99-af5f-209f556f63c2) | Attack Pattern | Valid Accounts - T1078 (b17a1a56-e99c-403c-8948-561df0cffe81) | Attack Pattern | 1 |