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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

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MITRE ATT&CK is the industry-standard taxonomy for cyber adversary behavior; relevant to AI safety for evaluating AI-enabled offensive capabilities, red-teaming AI systems, and informing threat models for AI deployment security.

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Summary

MITRE ATT&CK is a globally accessible, open knowledge base cataloging adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations. It provides a structured matrix of attack behaviors across enterprise, mobile, and ICS environments, used by defenders, researchers, and policymakers to build threat models and improve cybersecurity defenses.

Key Points

  • •Comprehensive taxonomy of adversary tactics (14 for Enterprise) and hundreds of techniques/sub-techniques derived from real-world intrusions
  • •Used as a standard reference framework by private sector, government, and cybersecurity product communities for threat modeling
  • •Covers the full attack lifecycle from Reconnaissance through Impact, enabling systematic gap analysis in defenses
  • •Free and open resource maintained by MITRE, with community contribution mechanisms and regular updates
  • •Relevant to AI security as a reference for evaluating offensive capabilities of AI systems and red-teaming AI-enabled attacks

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MITRE ATT&CK® 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ATT&CK v19 will be released April 28th! Check out this blog post for information on the planned deprecation of Enterprise's Defense Evasion tactic in the upcoming release.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 MITRE ATT&CK ® is a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations. The ATT&CK knowledge base is used as a foundation for the development of specific threat models and methodologies in the private sector, in government, and in the cybersecurity product and service community.

 With the creation of ATT&CK, MITRE is fulfilling its mission to solve problems for a safer world — by bringing communities together to develop more effective cybersecurity. ATT&CK is open and available to any person or organization for use at no charge.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 ATT&CK Matrix for Enterprise

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Reconnaissance 
 Resource Development 
 Initial Access 
 Execution 
 Persistence 
 Privilege Escalation 
 Defense Evasion 
 Credential Access 
 Discovery 
 Lateral Movement 
 Collection 
 Command and Control 
 Exfiltration 
 Impact 
 
 
 
 11 techniques
 
 
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 15 techniques
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Active Scanning (3) 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Scanning IP Blocks 
 

 
 
 
 
 Vulnerability Scanning 
 

 
 
 
 
 Wordlist Scanning 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gather Victim Host Information (4) 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Hardware 
 

 
 
 
 
 Software 
 

 
 
 
 
 Firmware 
 

 
 
 
 
 Client Configurations 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gather Victim Identity Information (3) 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Credentials 
 

 
 
 
 
 Email Addresses 
 

 
 
 
 
 Employee Names 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gather Victim Network Information (6) 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Domain Properties 
 

 
 
 
 
 DNS 
 

 
 
 
 
 Network Trust Dependencies 
 

 
 
 
 
 Network Topology 
 

 
 
 
 
 IP Addresses 
 

 
 
 
 
 Network Security Appliances 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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