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🇷🇺BlackByte

🇷🇺 BlackByte is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. Attributed to RU. Primary motivation: Criminal. We map 21 detection use cases to this actor across 56 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 1 threat-intel article citing them. Active in our corpus from 2026-08-10 to 2026-08-10.

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21Use cases

1Articles

56Techniques

0IOCs

Known aliases

BlackByteBlackbyteHecamede

Top techniques

T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing Application T1195.002 · Compromise Software Supply Chain T1204.002 · Malicious File

All other tracked techniques

T1003 · OS Credential Dumping T1003.001 · LSASS Memory T1005 · Data from Local System T1012 · Query Registry T1016 · System Network Configuration Discovery T1018 · Remote System Discovery T1021.001 · Remote Desktop Protocol T1021.002 · SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1036.008 · Masquerade File Type T1041 · Exfiltration Over C2 Channel T1046 · Network Service Discovery T1047 · Windows Management Instrumentation T1053.005 · Scheduled Task T1055 · Process Injection T1055.012 · Process Hollowing T1059.001 · PowerShell T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1068 · Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1070.004 · File Deletion T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1071.004 · DNS T1078 · Valid Accounts T1078.002 · Domain Accounts T1082 · System Information Discovery T1087.002 · Domain Account T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1112 · Modify Registry T1134.003 · Make and Impersonate Token T1135 · Network Share Discovery T1136.002 · Domain Account T1140 · Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1176 · Software Extensions T1219 · Remote Access Tools T1480 · Execution Guardrails T1482 · Domain Trust Discovery T1486 · Data Encrypted for Impact T1490 · Inhibit System Recovery T1491.001 · Internal Defacement T1505.003 · Web Shell T1518.001 · Security Software Discovery T1539 · Steal Web Session Cookie T1543.003 · Windows Service T1547.001 · Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1555.003 · Credentials from Web Browsers T1560 · Archive Collected Data T1567 · Exfiltration Over Web Service T1569.002 · Service Execution T1570 · Lateral Tool Transfer T1583.003 · Virtual Private Server T1608.001 · Upload Malware T1614.001 · System Language Discovery T1685 · Disable or Modify Tools T1686 · Disable or Modify System Firewall

Detection use cases (21)

Beaconing — periodic outbound to small set of destinations Internal Suspicious browser extension installation Internal Infostealer — non-browser process accessing browser cookie/login DBs Internal Crypto-wallet file/keystore access by non-wallet process Internal Asset exposure — vulnerability matches article CVE(s) Internal Ransomware-style mass file rename / extension change Internal LSASS process access / dump (credential theft) Internal Remote service execution — PsExec / SMB lateral movement Internal Trusted vendor binary / installer launching unusual children Internal 1Password impossible-travel sign-in MITRE match Auth-Bypass on Public-Facing Service → Post-Exploit Action on Same Host (≤10 min) MITRE match Brand-Impersonation Domain Fetch Followed by User-Context Loader Within 10 Minutes MITRE match Cross-category credential-store enumeration with rapid egress to anonymizing tunnel/CDN MITRE match Cross-Platform ClickFix Paste-to-Pipe Loader (UI-Parent Shell with Decode-and-Execute Payload) MITRE match Developer/Data-tooling Daemon Spawns Shell Child Seconds After POST to Runner/Exec Endpoint MITRE match Internet-Facing Service Daemon Spawns Shell or Ingress Tool Then Beacons Out MITRE match Internet-Facing Service Process Spawning Unix Shell or Ingress-Tool LOLBin (Edge Zero-Day Post-Exploit) MITRE match Internet-facing service process spawns shell/LOLBin within minutes of public inbound connection — post-RCE command execution MITRE match Language-runtime server (node/python/java) spawns OS shell shortly after inbound request — eval / sandbox-escape exploitation chain MITRE match Linux LPE chain — anomalous algif_aead/esp4/esp6/rxrpc kernel-module load followed by same-user root transition MITRE match Low-Code / AI Workflow Runtime Sandbox-Escape — Server Process Spawns Shell + Public Egress MITRE match

Threat-intel articles (1)

crit IT threat evolution in Q2 2026. Non-mobile statistics · 2026-08-10

Tracked indicators

CVEs (3)

CVE-2026-33825 CVE-2026-50751 CVE-2026-50752