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MITRE ATT&CK® Technique

T1195: Supply Chain Compromise

Adversaries may manipulate products or product delivery mechanisms prior to receipt by a final consumer for the purpose of data or system compromise.

Supply chain compromise can take place at any stage of the supply chain including:

* Manipulation of development tools * Manipulation of a development environment * Manipulation of source code repositories (public or private) * Manipulation of source code in open-source dependencies * Manipulation of software update/distribution mechanisms * Compromised/infected system images (removable media infected at the factory)[1][2] * Replacement of legitimate software with modified versions * Sales of modified/counterfeit products to legitimate distributors * Shipment interdiction

While supply chain compromise can impact any component of hardware or software, adversaries looking to gain execution have often focused on malicious additions to legitimate software in software distribution or update channels.[3][4][5] Adversaries may limit targeting to a desired victim set or distribute malicious software to a broad set of consumers but only follow up with specific victims.[6][3][5] Popular open-source projects that are used as dependencies in many applications may also be targeted as a means to add malicious code to users of the dependency.[7]

In some cases, adversaries may conduct “second-order” supply chain compromises by leveraging the access gained from an initial supply chain compromise to further compromise a software component.[8] This may allow the threat actor to spread to even more victims.

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Glexia's Take

Analyst context for executives and security teams

Analyst confidence High

Supply Chain Compromise matters because it can turn trusted software, dependencies, updates, images, or delivery channels into initial access across Linux, Windows, macOS, and SaaS environments. The business risk is not just one vulnerable host; it is trust failure in procurement, software delivery, update management, and third-party dependency governance.

Executive priority

Treat this as a resilience and assurance issue, not only a malware issue. Leaders should ask whether the organization can prove what software and dependencies are approved, who can change build/update paths, how vendor or open-source risk is reviewed, and whether incident response can rapidly identify affected systems if a trusted package, update, image, or supplier is found to be compromised.

Technical view

ATT&CK places T1195 under Initial Access and identifies software dependencies/development tools and software supply chain compromise as sub-technique areas. Because MITRE provides no official detection text for the parent technique, SOC and detection teams should validate coverage around the related detection strategy DET0537: package or update tampering followed by installation and first-run behavior. IR teams should be prepared to correlate software provenance, installation events, update activity, code-signing or integrity evidence, endpoint process execution, and SaaS/admin change history.

Likely telemetry

  • Software inventory and approved application records
  • Package manager, dependency, and repository logs
  • Build pipeline, source repository, and developer environment audit logs
  • Software update, installer, and distribution mechanism logs
  • Endpoint process creation and first-run execution telemetry

Detection direction

  • Validate whether detections connect the full chain: unusual package/update source, tampered or unexpected artifact, installation, and first execution.
  • Tune for high-risk software paths such as development tools, open-source dependencies, update mechanisms, compiled releases, and system images, while accounting for legitimate patching and release activity.
  • Use allowlisted software baselines and expected hashes/signatures where available; absence of provenance evidence is a key blind spot.
  • Correlate endpoint telemetry with repository, CI/CD, package manager, and SaaS audit logs rather than relying only on malware signatures.
  • Review ATT&CK relationship context carefully: listed groups and software are examples of usage relationships, not proof of current targeting or local exposure.

Mitigation priorities

  • Prioritize secure SDLC and application developer guidance for internal software and dependency handling.
  • Restrict unauthorized software installation and enforce least privilege through user account management.
  • Maintain disciplined software update processes while validating trusted sources, signatures, and integrity.
  • Use vulnerability scanning to identify exposed, outdated, or misconfigured software and dependencies that increase supply chain risk.
  • Apply boot integrity controls where system images, boot components, or device trust are in scope.
Analyst notes and limits

The object is broad and includes hardware, software, development, dependency, update, counterfeit product, removable media, and shipment-interdiction scenarios. The most actionable local work is mapping which supply chain paths exist in the environment and which logs prove integrity before and after installation. Relationships include mitigations M1013, M1016, M1018, M1033, M1046, and M1051, the detection strategy DET0537, sub-techniques T1195.001 and T1195.002, and usage relationships for Sandworm Team, OilRig, Ember Bear, Raccoon Stealer, and Lumma Stealer.

MITRE does not provide official detection guidance for the parent technique. The supplied fields support platforms Linux, Windows, macOS, and SaaS and tactic Initial Access, but do not provide environment-specific prevalence, active exploitation, vendor exposure, or guaranteed detection logic. Local software inventory, dependency maps, vendor processes, and telemetry availability are required to assess actual risk and coverage.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

Supply Chain Compromise

Adversaries may manipulate products or product delivery mechanisms prior to receipt by a final consumer for the purpose of data or system compromise.

Supply chain compromise can take place at any stage of the supply chain including:

* Manipulation of development tools * Manipulation of a development environment * Manipulation of source code repositories (public or private) * Manipulation of source code in open-source dependencies * Manipulation of software update/distribution mechanisms * Compromised/infected system images (removable media infected at the factory)[1][2] * Replacement of legitimate software with modified versions * Sales of modified/counterfeit products to legitimate distributors * Shipment interdiction

While supply chain compromise can impact any component of hardware or software, adversaries looking to gain execution have often focused on malicious additions to legitimate software in software distribution or update channels.[3][4][5] Adversaries may limit targeting to a desired victim set or distribute malicious software to a broad set of consumers but only follow up with specific victims.[6][3][5] Popular open-source projects that are used as dependencies in many applications may also be targeted as a means to add malicious code to users of the dependency.[7]

In some cases, adversaries may conduct “second-order” supply chain compromises by leveraging the access gained from an initial supply chain compromise to further compromise a software component.[8] This may allow the threat actor to spread to even more victims.

View the same entry on attack.mitre.org (MITRE-hosted reference; in-page links above use the Glexia ATT&CK library.)

Glexia analysis

How security teams should use this page

Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.

ATT&CK relationship table

Related techniques

This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.

3 rows
Domain ID Name Relationship / procedure
Enterprise T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools Sub-technique Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools subtechnique of this object.
Enterprise T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain Sub-technique Compromise Software Supply Chain subtechnique of this object.
Enterprise T1195.003 Compromise Hardware Supply Chain Sub-technique Compromise Hardware Supply Chain subtechnique of this object.
Associated objects

Groups, software, and campaigns

Group Enterprise

G0049: OilRig

OilRig is a suspected Iranian threat group that has targeted Middle Eastern and international victims since at least 2014. The group has targeted a variety of sectors, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications. It appears the group carries out supply chain attacks, leveraging the trust relationship between organizations to attack their primary targets. The group works on behalf of the Iranian government based on infrastructure details that contain references to Iran, use of Iranian infrastructure, and targeting that aligns with nation-state interests.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Group Enterprise

G1003: Ember Bear

Ember Bear is a Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group that has been active since at least 2020, linked to Russia's General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155).[1] Ember Bear has primarily focused operations against Ukrainian government and telecommunication entities, but has also operated against critical infrastructure entities in Europe and the Americas.[2] Ember Bear conducted the WhisperGate destructive wiper attacks against Ukraine in early 2022.[3][4][1] There is some confusion as to whether Ember Bear overlaps with another Russian-linked entity referred to as Saint Bear. At present available evidence strongly suggests these are distinct activities with different behavioral profiles.[2][5]

Group Enterprise

G0034: Sandworm Team

Sandworm Team is a destructive threat group that has been attributed to Russia's General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST) military unit 74455.[1][2] This group has been active since at least 2009.[3][4][5][6]

In October 2020, the US indicted six GRU Unit 74455 officers associated with Sandworm Team for the following cyber operations: the 2015 and 2016 attacks against Ukrainian electrical companies and government organizations, the 2017 worldwide NotPetya attack, targeting of the 2017 French presidential campaign, the 2018 Olympic Destroyer attack against the Winter Olympic Games, the 2018 operation against the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and attacks against the country of Georgia in 2018 and 2019.[1][2] Some of these were conducted with the assistance of GRU Unit 26165, which is also referred to as APT28.[7]

Malware Enterprise

S1148: Raccoon Stealer

Raccoon Stealer is an information stealer malware family active since at least 2019 as a malware-as-a-service offering sold in underground forums. Raccoon Stealer has experienced two periods of activity across two variants, from 2019 to March 2022, then resurfacing in a revised version in June 2022.[1][2]

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Source references

External references and citations

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  1. [1]
    IBM Storwize

    IBM Support. (2017, April 26). Storwize USB Initialization Tool may contain malicious code. Retrieved May 28, 2019.

    Open source URL
  2. [2]
    Schneider Electric USB Malware

    Schneider Electric. (2018, August 24). Security Notification – USB Removable Media Provided With Conext Combox and Conext Battery Monitor. Retrieved May 28, 2019.

    Open source URL
  3. [3]
    Avast CCleaner3 2018

    Avast Threat Intelligence Team. (2018, March 8). New investigations into the CCleaner incident point to a possible third stage that had keylogger capacities. Retrieved March 15, 2018.

    Open source URL
  4. [4]
    Microsoft Dofoil 2018

    Windows Defender Research. (2018, March 7). Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign. Retrieved March 20, 2018.

    Open source URL
  5. [5]
    Command Five SK 2011

    Command Five Pty Ltd. (2011, September). SK Hack by an Advanced Persistent Threat. Retrieved November 17, 2024.

    Open source URL
  6. [6]
    Symantec Elderwood Sept 2012

    O'Gorman, G., and McDonald, G.. (2012, September 6). The Elderwood Project. Retrieved November 17, 2024.

    Open source URL
  7. [7]
    Trendmicro NPM Compromise

    Trendmicro. (2018, November 29). Hacker Infects Node.js Package to Steal from Bitcoin Wallets. Retrieved April 10, 2019.

    Open source URL
  8. [8]
    Krebs 3cx overview 2023

    Brian Krebs. (2023, April 20). 3CX Breach Was a Double Supply Chain Compromise. Retrieved May 22, 2025.

    Open source URL
  9. [9]
    mitre-attack T1195
    Open source URL
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