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DRINKING TEA

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THREAT ACTORS

Groups observed using it

2 distinct threat actors attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.

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TAO

Credential Harvesting via the tool DRINKING TEA: This tool sniffed SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin passwords used by university IT administrators, granting NSA full access to internal systems.

via inversecosinversecos.com
APT-C-40

Credential Harvesting via the tool DRINKING TEA: This tool sniffed SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin passwords used by university IT administrators, granting NSA full access to internal systems.

via inversecosinversecos.com
MITRE ATT&CK

Techniques & procedures

1 distinct technique documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.

T1040Network SniffingEvidence1

Credential Harvesting via the tool DRINKING TEA: This tool sniffed SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin passwords used by university IT administrators ... NSA allegedly used this to capture command-line logs, passwords generated by University staff during their operation and maintenance work.

Discovery

1 technique
T1040Network SniffingEvidence1

Credential Harvesting via the tool DRINKING TEA: This tool sniffed SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin passwords used by university IT administrators ... NSA allegedly used this to capture command-line logs, passwords generated by University staff during their operation and maintenance work.

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Threat actor attribution2

Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.

Exploited vulnerabilities

CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.

Detection signatures

YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.

MITRE ATT&CK mapping1

Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.

Researcher chatter

Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.