T1589

Gather Victim Identity Information

PREnothing on this site yetT1589 on attack.mitre.org

Adversaries may gather information about the victim's identity that can be used during targeting. Information about identities may include a variety of details, including personal data (ex: employee names, email addresses, security question responses, etc.) as well as sensitive details such as credentials or multi-factor authentication (MFA) configurations.
MITRE ATT&CK 19.2, retrieved 2026-09-12

how MITRE says to see it

Detection of Gather Victim Identity Information

Monitor for suspicious network traffic that could be indicative of probing for user information, such as large/iterative quantities of authentication requests originating from a single source (especially if the source is known to be associated with an adversary/botnet).

what reduces it

M1056 Pre-compromise. This technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on behaviors performed outside of the scope of enterprise defenses and controls. Efforts should focus on minimizing the amount and sensitivity of data available to external parties.

sub-techniques

T1589.001 Credentials · not covered yet
T1589.002 Email Addresses · not covered yet
T1589.003 Employee Names · not covered yet

The description, detection analytics and mitigations are reproduced from MITRE ATT&CK, version 19.2, under its terms of use. The checklists, hunts, labs and everything else linked here are this site’s.