Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Credentials

Threat Actors may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to maintain persistent access to victim accounts and instances within the environment.

ID: ATAGS-T1080.001
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1080
Targeted Components: Cloud Control Plane
Responsibility: Provider
Created: 18 April 2026
Last Modified: 18 April 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.