Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files

Threat Actors may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials. These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals, configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.

ID: ATAGS-T1126.004
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1126
Targeted Components: Mission, Personnel & Identity
Responsibility: Shared
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.