I.0148Indicator
Communicates with known threat actors
Contacts infrastructure or accounts tied to known malicious groups, suggesting C2, collusion, or exfiltration prep.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Category
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Mappings
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Indicators carry no mappings of their own; the signals in the same risk domain do.
Cite this term
"Communicates with known threat actors" (I.0148), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/indicators/i-0148-communicates-with-known-threat-actors
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The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.