Adversaries may insert, delete, or manipulate data in order to influence external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data.(Citation: Sygnia Elephant Beetle Jan 2022) By manipulating data, adversaries may attempt to affect a business process, organizational understanding, or decision making.
The type of modification and the impact it will have depends on the target application and process as well as the goals and objectives of the adversary. For complex systems, an adversary would likely need special expertise and possibly access to specialized software related to the system that would typically be gained through a prolonged information gathering campaign in order to have the desired impact.
View in MITRE ATT&CK®| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| CIS-11.4 | Establish and Maintain an Isolated Instance of Recovery Data | mitigates | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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Adversaries manipulate data to affect operations or hide activity. An isolated recovery copy remains outside the compromised production write path, preserving a trusted version that can replace manipulated data.
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| CIS-11.3 | Protect Recovery Data | mitigates | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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Adversaries alter enterprise data to affect operations or hide activity. Integrity controls, access restrictions, and protected recovery copies preserve trusted versions that cannot be modified through ordinary production access, directly reducing the lasting effect of manipulation.
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| CIS-11.2 | Perform Automated Backups | mitigates | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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Adversaries alter data to affect decisions, processes, or system outcomes. Automated backups preserve earlier trusted versions of that data, directly enabling defenders to replace manipulated information with a known-good state.
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| CIS-3.11 | Encrypt Sensitive Data At Rest | mitigates | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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Adversaries insert, delete, or manipulate data to influence outcomes or conceal activity. Encrypting sensitive data at rest can prevent an adversary who lacks the decryption capability from understanding the protected content sufficiently to perform targeted or meaningful modifications, reducing the effectiveness of the manipulation.
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| CIS-4.6 | Securely Manage Enterprise Assets and Software | mitigates | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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Version-controlled configuration and authenticated encrypted management channels reduce unauthorized or undetected changes to enterprise configuration. The safeguard does not protect every type of business or application data.
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| CIS-16.8 | Separate Production and Non-Production Systems | mitigates | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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Separating production from non-production systems reduces unauthorized cross-environment access to production data and business processes, limiting the ability of a compromise in development or test infrastructure to directly manipulate production information.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| attribute.integrity.variety.Modify data | Modified stored data or content | related-to | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| backup_and_dr_actifiogo | Backup and DR-Actifio GO | technique_scores | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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Backup and DR-Actifio GO is a copy data management plaform that virtualizes application data to improve an organizations resiliency and cloud mobility. This capability allows an organization to take regular backups and provides several methods of restoring applications and/or VM data to a previous state. This provides significant ability to respond to Data Manipulation since an organization could restore manipulated data back to the latest backup.
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| cloud_vpn | Cloud VPN | technique_scores | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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This control provides protection against data from being manipulated by adversaries through target applications by encrypting important information.
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| Capability ID | Capability Description | Mapping Type | ATT&CK ID | ATT&CK Name | Notes |
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| aws_cloudendure_disaster_recovery | AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery | technique_scores | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery enables the replication and recovery of servers into AWS Cloud. In the event that data on servers is manipulated, AWS CloudEndure can be used to provision an instance of the server from a previous point in time within minutes. This mapping is given a score of Minimal because it only supports a subset (1 of 3) of the sub-techniques.
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| aws_rds | AWS RDS | technique_scores | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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AWS RDS supports the encryption of database instances using the AES-256 encryption algorithm. This can protect database instances from being modified at rest. Furthermore, AWS RDS supports TLS/SSL connections which protect data from being modified during transit. This mapping is given a score of Partial because it only supports a subset of the sub-techniques (2 of 3).
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| aws_rds | AWS RDS | technique_scores | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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AWS RDS supports the replication and recovery of database instances. In the event that data is manipulated, AWS RDS can be used to restore the database instance to a previous point in time. As a result, this mapping is given a score of Significant.
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| amazon_guardduty | Amazon GuardDuty | technique_scores | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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The following GuardDuty finding type flags events where adversaries may insert, delete, or manipulate data in order to manipulate external outcomes or hide activity.
Impact:S3/MaliciousIPCaller
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| amazon_virtual_private_cloud | Amazon Virtual Private Cloud | technique_scores | T1565 | Data Manipulation |
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The VPC service's support for the AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN) can be used to encrypt traffic traversing over untrusted networks which can provide protection against one sub-technique (Transmitted Data Manipulation) of this technique while not providing protection for its remaining sub-techniques resulting in overall score of Partial.
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| Technique ID | Technique Name | Number of Mappings |
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| T1565.001 | Stored Data Manipulation | 14 |
| T1565.003 | Runtime Data Manipulation | 3 |
| T1565.002 | Transmitted Data Manipulation | 9 |