Remote Service Session Hijacking: SSH Hijacking

ID Name
ATAGS-T1163.001 SSH Hijacking
ATAGS-T1163.002 RDP Hijacking

Threat Actors may hijack a legitimate user's SSH session to move laterally within an environment. Secure Shell (SSH) is a standard means of remote access on Linux and macOS systems. It allows a user to connect to another system via an encrypted tunnel, commonly authenticating through a password, certificate or the use of an asymmetric encryption key pair.

ID: ATAGS-T1163.001
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1163
Targeted Components: Software
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.