Email Bombing
Technique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1667
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1667",
"title": "Email Bombing",
"type": "Technique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1667",
"snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
"status": "active",
"rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
"review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
"stix_id": "attack-pattern--bed81616-3dde-4685-be6e-ba9820f9a7ed",
"external_id": "T1667",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2025-01-31T14:39:58.478Z",
"modified": "2025-04-15T19:59:03.350Z",
"version": "1.0",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"impact"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "krebs-email-bombing",
"url": "https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/massive-email-bombs-target-gov-addresses/"
},
{
"source_name": "sophos-bombing",
"url": "https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/01/21/sophos-mdr-tracks-two-ransomware-campaigns-using-email-bombing-microsoft-teams-vishing/"
},
{
"source_name": "rapid7-email-bombing",
"url": "https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2024/05/10/ongoing-social-engineering-campaign-linked-to-black-basta-ransomware-operators"
},
{
"source_name": "hhs-email-bombing",
"url": "https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/email-bombing-sector-alert-tlpclear.pdf"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (3)
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ATTACK:enterprise:G1046 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1667
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--0596eecc-c6cd-4ec4-ac7a-9b0648e1a10f
RedCanary Storm-1811 2024 · rapid7-email-bombingATTACK:enterprise:M1017 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1667
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--f494bf94-fe0e-4590-8991-470da4bcb4e0
ATTACK:enterprise:M1054 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1667
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--f5097f4c-c1e4-4177-9985-31c017e32adc
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