Top MITRE ATT&CK Techniques and How to Defend Against Them
DARKReading, Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
A cheat sheet for all of the most common techniques hackers use, and general principles for stopping them.
Of the hundreds of documented MITRE ATT&CK techniques, two dominate the field: command and scripting interpreters (T1059) and phishing (T1566).
In a report published on April 10, D3 Security analyzed more than 75,000 recent cybersecurity incidents. Its goal was to determine which methods of attack were most common.
The results paint a stark picture: those two techniques outpaced all others by orders of magnitude, with the top technique outpacing the runner-up by a factor of three.